Islamabad, Pakistan: Once again, terrorists killed bus passengers in Balochistan after checking their National Identification Cards (IDC) and executed 23 who belonged to Punjab. This is not the first incident of such nature rather it is a routine of TTP and BLA (Pakistan state now calls them Fitna al Khawarij) to attack buses, shops, and working places; check the IDC of persons and kill those who belong to Punjab or a particular sect. TTP does it on sectarian background and kills people belonging to a particular sect while BLA does it on ethnic background meaning both work closely to divide Pakistan on ethnic and sectarian backgrounds.
On the night of August 25, in Rara Sham area of the Musakhel district of Balochistan, terrorists shot and killed 23 innocent people in passenger buses and trucks after identifying those, who belonged to other provinces of Pakistan. More than 10 ordinary passenger vehicles were also set on fire.
The targeted killing of people from other provinces of Pakistan who go to Balochistan for employment is not a new thing in Balochistan. Such heartbreaking incidents have happened before. Undoubtedly, anti-national forces are behind these sad incidents. With the help of the facilitators, some are trying to undermine the peace of Balochistan and stop its progress. For journalists, it is important to expose the faces of the facilitators of these hostile forces and examine the motives behind them. Over 7,000 non-Baloch teachers (between 2006-2022) were reported to have sought transfer to educational institutions in Pashtun-majority areas of Balochistan or resigned and migrated to other provinces and Baloch separatists claimed responsibility for murdering academic staff and tried to justify their acts as revenge against the state of Pakistan.
For some time now, the Baloch Solidarity Committee has been propagandizing in the name of the missing persons and Dr. Mahrang Baloch has created a lot of commotion in Balochistan for some time due to the agenda of hostile forces. But whenever there is an incident of terrorism in Balochistan, they smell a snake and they don’t even remotely condemn it. According to the news, the Baloch Liberation Army has accepted and Mahrang Baloch in her statements and speeches always supports the Baloch Liberation Army and their terrorists who are also their facilitators.
This incident is not an attack on any military installations, but innocent Pakistani citizens have been targeted. Will Mahrang Baloch and his facilitators raise their voices for these dead innocent Pakistanis?
It is also sad that when Mahrang Baloch and his facilitators hold continuous rallies and sit-ins in which the anti-state narrative is propagated and seeds of hatred are sown, then the security arrangements in such a large province become difficult to do when facilitating from within.
No matter how much this incident is condemned, the patriotic Baloch people should now be aware of the tactics of these anti-patriotic elements, especially the Baloch Solidarity Committee who, on the signals of their external masters, BLA, BNA, and other terrorist organizations want to disrupt the peace of Balochistan and stop the journey of development. Unfortunately, a political cadre of the country that provides moral support to separatists like BLA does not condemn BLA when Punjabis or Sindhis are killed on ethnic background nor does the diplomatic cadre living in Islamabad comment as both overtly and covertly support separatists and provides them support and visas to leave Pakistan for western world from where they operate against Pakistan.
A journalist, a doctor, an engineer, a businessman, an academician, a scholar, a government official, or a writer cannot get the visa as easily as a terrorist of BLA gets a visa from EU and North American countries. This is a hard fact that Baloch separatists get visas even sometimes without appearing for their interviews and hundreds of separatists are now living in Europe and North America after enjoying special visa services because they established that they were separatists and want to create a free Balochistan. If you want to visit North America or European countries, you need to establish you are ‘anti-Pakistan’ and you will surely get the visa later or sooner. First, you will be provided a visa and then you will be eligible for asylum when you reach the country of your desire.
After the tragic incident of Musahkhel where BLA terrorists killed 23 passengers after offloading from the bus, will political and human rights mouthpieces such as Mahrang Baloch, Mahmood Khan Achakzai, and many such them condemn BLA that have already taken responsibility for this attack? Will Human Rights defenders condemn this action of BLA?
The same-day attack in Kalat and other places in Balochistan determines that terrorists are collaborating again and have something bigger in their minds now.
