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Monday, February 27, 2012

[ALOCHONA] Fw: [WideMinds] Turmoil in Balochistan and the debacle of East Pakistan




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Subject: [WideMinds] Turmoil in Balochistan and the debacle of East Pakistan
 

Turmoil in Balochistan and the debacle of East Pakistan

By Abdus Sattar Ghazali
The current wave of socio-economic and political turmoil in Balochistan resembles with the social and political unrest that had led to the separation of East Pakistan and establishment of Bangladesh in December 1971.
Many in Pakistan believe that the ruling elite of West Pakistan lost East Pakistan because it was located at a distance of   about 1,000 miles from West Pakistan and India supported the separatists openly. However, irrespective of the reports that India or any other power is involved in fomenting the rebellion, it will be wrong to think that the Pakistan army will be able to keep Balochistan under its control through brutal repressive measures.
Time is ripe that the grievances of Balochistan people should be addressed and Balochistan should be given provincial autonomy to ensure peace, harmony and co-operative co-existence in the country. If history has any lesson, the ruling elite in Pakistan should revisit the debacle of East Pakistan. History repeats itself because nobody listens or History repeats itself because the world doesn't learn. The poet and philosopher George Santayana says: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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