Zrumbesh Editorial
On the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, when explosions echoed in the skies over Bahawalpur, Muzaffarabad, Faisalabad, and Kotli, it was not merely a shock to Pakistan’s artificial and unnatural geographical boundaries—it marked the first open international challenge to the colonial state’s military deception and its long-standing policy of destabilizing regional power dynamics through terrorism. Under “Operation Sindoor,” India targeted locations it identified as terrorist hubs—centers that have long been behind acts of terrorism in Kashmir and, in Balochistan, the massacre of civilians, enforced disappearances, mutilated bodies, mass graves, and demographic invasion.
These attacks are not merely an expression of regional tension but represent a symbolic moment for the Baloch national movement. The militant groups—such as Jaish-e-Mohammad, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and other private militias—that the Pakistani state has used to suppress the Baloch independence movement, are now under Indian focus. Centers like Bahawalpur and Muzaffarabad have for years been breeding grounds for state-backed proxy terrorism against the Baloch movement, with the support of the Pakistani establishment and other state institutions, destabilizing the peace of the region.
On Baloch soil, where there is no space for human rights, these militias, under state patronage, have committed crimes so grave that the global silence surrounding them has become a form of criminal complicity. These actions further emphasize the fact that what is happening in Balochistan is not merely an internal security matter, but a full-fledged colonial repression—where the occupying state uses religious terrorism as a weapon to mask its own vulnerabilities.
We must remember the words of Baba Marri,“Anger does not subside when directed at the weak, and it does not arise when faced with the powerful.”
This statement holds truer today than ever before. The Pakistani state’s fury is unleashed on the Baloch people because it knows that while they may be without weapons, they are ideologically and politically unconquerable. And this is why the state enforces a reign of fear, murder, and suppression in Balochistan through its proxy forces.
Now, as these private militant centers receive a direct response from India, the real question is not whether Pakistan’s so-called sovereignty has been compromised—but rather, whether the repeated assaults on Baloch sovereignty, Baloch human dignity, and the sanctity of Baloch land deserve no response from the international community?
This is the moment for the global conscience to awaken and expose this bloody colonial enterprise. The violations of human rights, ethnic cleansing, enforced disappearances, and the military ambitions disguised as development projects in Balochistan are no longer hidden. While Operation Sindoor is a part of India’s military strategy, it also creates an opportunity to bring the Baloch national question to the global stage—but only if Baloch intellectuals, resistance Fighter, and the international community assert, with full clarity, that the primary and consistent target of Pakistan’s state terrorism has always been the Baloch nation.
Until the Baloch nation achieves its freedom, there will be no peace in the region—and military operations, both covert and overt, will continue.
This is the time for the international community to recognize the Baloch national movement as a legitimate, human, and political struggle—and to hold the centers of state brutality accountable in the court of global conscience.
