WASHINGTON: A top Baloch leader believes Pakistani forces are engaged in a "tsunami of human rights violations" in Balochistan, and sought the help of the international community including India, in the Baloch nationalist movement.
Brahumdagh Bugti, president of the Baloch Republican Party, thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for recently raising concern over the situation in Balochistan. "Pak forces are engaged in tsunami of human rights violations. We do not want to live with Pakistan anymore." He urged the international community, including the US, NATO countries, Israel and India, to help them in their fight. Bugti said Modi's recent remarks during his Independence Day is the "most powerful statement" in the last seven decades. "It is for the first time that an Indian Prime Minister has spoken. We believe that India should have taken this step a long time ago."
"I am thoroughly indebted to Prime Minister Modi. I thank Prime Minister Modi for speaking, raising the voice of Baloch people in his Independence Day address." He alleged that the Pakistani crime against people has shaken the world. Bugti claimed that the use of aerial bombardment, use of gases have become routine, and called Balochistan the world capital of missing people. "We are political people. We want to solve this with peaceful means. But there is no way we are going to be part of the Pakistan any more. We want freedom of Pakistan. We are not fools to try our luck again and again with Pakistan. We are ready to negotiate though peaceful means," he said.
"So far we have never received any support from any international countries including India. We want to request India and other countries to help Balochistan. It is genocide of Baloch people in Pakistan going on."
