QUETTA, BALOCHISTAN: Dr. Allah Nazar Baloch, Supreme Commander of the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF), has issued a comprehensive statement addressing the Pakistani state’s campaign against Baloch intellectuals, researchers, teachers, professors, and poets, while delivering a stern warning to political collaborators and drawing sharp historical parallels with the 1971 Bangladesh war of independence.
Dr. Allah Nazar Baloch said that Sarfaraz Bugti and those of his ilk should draw lessons from the fate of Bangladesh’s puppets. Collaborators like Sarfaraz Bugti have been tried by occupiers throughout the world. While they may prove temporarily effective for the occupier, such figures earn nothing but disgrace within their own nation and society. Their claim to public representation rests on the crutches of the occupying military, and the day is not far when these crutches will be shattered by the force of Baloch national strength.
The recent statements made by Sarfaraz Bugti regarding Baloch researchers, teachers, professors, and poets represent the true intentions of the Pakistani military and the state, the very same intentions that Pakistan acted upon during Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971. The Pakistani military massacred hundreds of Bangladeshi intellectuals, researchers, and teachers, yet Bangladesh still achieved its independence. Through the blood of the Bangladeshi people and educators, Bangladesh today stands as a dignified nation among free peoples, and that blood remains a debt upon the Punjabi ruling class to this day, he said.
Dr. Baloch further said that declaring Baloch intellectuals, PhD scholars, professors, and poets as threats to the state is testimony to the fact that national consciousness and political awareness are growing within Baloch society. As a result, the Baloch nation’s commitment to the liberation movement is growing stronger, and an unbridgeable distance is forming between the Baloch people and the state’s narrative. The Baloch nation is consciously participating in the struggle for freedom and this is what the state deeply fears.
A conscious nation is always capable of making better decisions about its own future. It is this very consciousness that has alarmed the occupying state and its puppet representatives, who are attempting to target Balochistan’s educated and aware classes in order to pave the way for the state. However, when resistance permeates every stratum of a society, puppets become nothing more than a laughingstock, and this is exactly what is happening in Balochistan today.
The series of recent incidents, including the targeted killing of renowned writer and poet Professor Ghamwar Hayat Baloch and the enforced disappearance of Baloch poetess Habiba Peer Jan, indicate that the occupying state has intensified its efforts to systematically suppress intellectual and literary voices in Balochistan. This pattern of targeting patriotic Baloch minds will continue in the future as well.
The statements of Sarfaraz Bugti and other government representatives are part of a systematic state fascist policy under which voices of resistance, dissent, and political consciousness, along with intellectuals and scholars, are being suppressed in Balochistan. However, rather than weakening the resolve and consciousness of the Baloch people, these policies will further strengthen them and serve as fuel for the national cause. The intellectual guidance of patriotic Baloch minds will continue to energize our national struggle.
