Sawaab, is a short film recorded in Balochistan, By Ikram khan
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14 August Celebrations in Balochistan
Video: 14 August Celeberations in Balochistan:
Video: 14 August Celeberations in Dera Bugti:
Quetta shakes off fear, celebrates Aug 14: Dawn News
A rickshaw bedecked with miniature flags joins an impromptu ‘rally on wheels’ of people celebrating the Independence Day.
QUETTA: For the first time in recent years, Quetta reverberated with slogans of “Pakistan Zindabad” as people in their thousands thronged various streets on cars, rickshaws, motorcycles and on foot.
As in other cities and towns in the country there was a festive mood all over the Balochistan capital.
Important city arteries like Zarghoon Road, Jinnah Road and Prince Road saw thousands of youth riding motorcycles and cars, some of which blared out national songs.
The roads were a sea of green as most vehicles and pedestrians carried the national flag.
“We are happy to watch youth dancing in traditional Pakhtoon and Balochi fashion,” said an official of the district administration. “The sight of people swarming roads and markets to celebrate the independence day after a long time has warmed our hearts,” he added.
The presence of women and children in big numbers lent a homely touch to the atmosphere.
Some youths were seen indulging their passion for one-wheeling after taking out silencer from their bikes.
Important government buildings like the Governor House, Chief Minister House, Balochistan Assembly, Balochistan High Court, the Secretariat and the Frontier Corps headquarters were bathed in fancy lights.
A display of fireworks organised by the Frontier Corps thrilled crowds at the Ayub Stadium. There was an impressive turnout at a tribal jirga organised by the Frontier Corps.
Independence day celebrations Pictures in Balochistan: Balochistan Times
11 August, Independence day of Balochistan?
After the Social media boom in Pakistan, and so much news channels, it become very much difficult to know that what is real and what is the fake story.
Among few fake stories, now a days, some Baloch Fake ids are spreading since Musheraf government time that “11 August is the Independence day of Balochistan”.
Among this lie series, the biggest and most quoted lie is “Balochistan become the part of Pakistan with force”, by knowingly or unknowingly they shrink whole “Balochistan” to “Kalat state”, it is totally wrong to refer Kalat state as “Balochistan”.
Fact is in 1947 time, Balochistan consisted of four princely states three of them were Makran,LasBela and Kharan.These state willingly joined with Pakistan in 1947 during the Partition of sub continent and Fourth state was Kalat State.
From Below Comments:
The 11 Aug 1947 event was essentially Kalat’s attempt to break away, but the agreement the Khan and Quaid-e-Azam signed on 4 Aug 1947 essentially made Kalat accept the suzerainty of Pakistan and that Pakistan would control Kalat’s foreign affairs, defence etc pending any negotiations!
Nationalists often cite how Kalat’s upper and lower houses rejected idea of joining Pakistan, but they leave the fact out that firstly these houses only had representatives of Kalat and Makran (none from Kharan, Lasbela or British Baluchistan province) and that they were essentially dummy advisory parliaments that the Khan had given little or no powers on.
The Khan wanted to be supreme ruler of Kalat and its states, and that did not bode well with Jam Ghulam Qadir Khan of Lasbela, Nawab Habibullah Khan Nausherwani of Kharan, and Nawab Bai Khan Gichki of Makran. All of them were related to Khan via marriages but they did not want the Khan to decide their destiny and all of them had a history of opposing too much control sought by Kalat on their territories for centuries.
So they were easily persuaded to join Pakistan by March 1948 just to avoid the Khan’s desire for complete control. British Baluchistan had already joined Pakistan by 1947 thanks to vote of Shahi Jirga and Quetta Municipal Board, and the accession of Kharan, Lasbela, and the Makran meant that Kalat was now screwed and surrounded by Pakistani territory! Meaning the Khan realised his folly and signed accessed on 17 March 1948.
Army only entered Kalat because the Khan’s brother, Abdul Karim, had rebelled against Pakistan with some 100 followers and attempted to launch an armed struggle which proved to be futile.
About army operation against Khan of Kalat, Khan of Kalat Meer Ahmed Yar Khan himself wrote in his biography book that operation was because of the misinformation, which was created by army generals of that time.
After that so-called “operation”, Khan of Kalat remained with Pakistan, never spoke against Pakistan and never supported any rebellion activity. Here is picture of Khan of Kalat sitting with Akber Bugti and Bhuto:
Later, Khan Of Kalat also become the Governor of Balochistan, And one most of Pakistanis dont know that Khan of Kalat, served Pakistani government as a “Ambesstor of Pakistan in Holand”
Here is video of “Shaheed-E-Balochistan” Akber Bugti (in Balochi language) explaining the Merger of Pakistan with Balochistan:
Acording to AKber Bugti: After UK decieded to leave sub continent, the representatives of Baloch were asked about their decision to Join Pakistan or India, the Majority of Baloch Leaders vote for Pakistan, and than hence Balochistan became the part of Pakistan.
Akber Bugti further said: As our forefathers remained loyal to this country(Pakistan), till this date we proudly say that we are loyal to this country. Our respect and loyalty is still like our forefathers.
This same Akber Bugti went on mountains against the army operation during Musheraf time, but during that fight he never speak against Pakistan and never raise the slogan of “Azad Balochistan”.
Is Punjab Police kidnapping Baloch?
Today, I saw a clip of “Capital talk” by Hameed Mir, In which he show an interview of BNP(M) leader Zulfiqar Mulghani. On this clip, Programme title was given “Punjab Police Involved In Baloch Missing Person’s Kidnappings “.
Here is the clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n41K-TGZzU&feature=relmfu
This title and allegation was a very strange to me, as I am a Baloch and living in Punjab.
After this, according to Dawn News Two senior DIGs will also be the member of this committee that will review the charges leveled by Zulfiqar Baloch, member of BNP (Mengal Group), alleging that Punjab police was allegedly involved in the kidnapping of the Baloch.
Who is Zulfiqar Milgani:
Zulifqar Milghani is member of BNP-M (Balochsitan national party,Mangel Group), belongs to district D G Khan which is located in Punjab.
In this clip,incident with ZM was misquoted by Hamid Meer, and also gave a wrong impression.
Misqoutin:
Although Hamid Mir in his show claim that BNP is a political party which do not support freedom struggle (he is right at this point) ,but he did not ask Zulfiqar Milgani that had he any clue that why he was taken in custody.
Mr Zulfiqar Milgani in local news papers of Dist. D G Khan gave statements in the support the american congress resolution about Balochistan.
After this statement he was taken in custody by the intelligence agencies, with the help of punjab police. BNP`s statement in balochistan local news papers (daily duniya) says that Zulfiqar Milghani is taken in custody by intelligence agencies.
After the investigation by the intelligence agencies, he was set free within a week.
Wrong Impression of this clip:
The impression of this clip is as Punjab police is “kidnapping Baloch”. We can see the title of this video “”SHOCKING FINDING”” , and the way Punjab police made the committee on this issue also prove this impression.
Mr Zulfiqar Milghani is a Baloch but living in punjab, If a Baloch living in Punjab will do a crime or required for any kind of investigation, certainly punjab police will operate not “Balochistan police” will come in punjab to investigate that matter.
We already know that there is a allot of hatred in Baloch and Balochistan against punjabis. Allot of people were killed because they were punabis and living in Balochistan. Its better that our media show more care in showing such interviews.
No doubt, unlike other news shows, Hamid Mir do not do long interview of Baloch so called “freedom fighters”(Hairbyar and Barghadagh), its good, but in this show it looks he convey a wrong message.
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