On Wednesday 10, September 2008 Baloch Women Panel (BWP) issued a press release, in Quetta, Pakistani-occupied Balochistan. Regarding the recent incident of killings of Baloch women.
Press release:
People like Shaheed Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti whom uphold the Baloch values and not Israr Ullah Zehri. There is no place for customs such as burying the women alive, in Baloch society. Those who say that it is part of “our culture” are defending their feudalistic way of life and are portraying Baloch values incorrectly, to safe guard their wasted interests.
Punishments like burying women alive have no place in any society and Baloch society vigorously condemns this heinous act. Those who practice such kind of acts are the so-called Balochs, which are the representatives of Pakistan. They are the ones who do such inhuman acts with the backing of Pakistani establishment, then call it a part of Baloch culture.
If some one has upheld the Baloch values then he is Shaheed Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti. He was the person who fought for the justice of a woman, she was not a Baloch by race, which was raped by Pakistani army officers. He never cared about his home and life just to defend that woman, eventually he embraced martyrdom but not betrayed Baloch values.
In Baloch culture, Quran only parallels the respect for women. The remnants of Sandeman System who sit in the Pakistani parliament, if they do not know about Baloch values then they have no right to address it.
Now days there is uproar by some people in the East and West whose tireless tongues are continuously criticizing Baloch values. Then they must know that today in Balochistan there are thousands of Baloch people who are missing, and there are hundreds of mass graves in Dera Bugti and Kohlu.
During the present regime of Pakistan many Balochs were burnt alive by Pakistani army, we ask these “human rightists” that where is your love for humanity when Balochs are being burnt, where is your human rights when relatives were not allowed to mourn the deaths of their loved ones, which are killed by Pakistani army. How can these humanists answer these aggrieved families?
But the sad thing is this that some Balochs sitting in London say that they do not want a free Balochistan where women are being buried alive and where rulers are like Israr Ullah Zehri. We must remind them that our struggle is against the individuals like Israr Ullah Zehri because people like him are prolonging the yoke of enemy in Balochistan, the Pakistani occupation of Balochistan.
Our, Baloch, freedom will not only bring equality and love but it will also kick out Baloch traitors. Baloch war of liberation is not going to stop, if it had been then a landlord from Sindh becoming president of Pakistan would have solved all the problems. Our destination is a free Balochistan and one day we will reach to our destination.
Gowar Shakar Bibi, founder of Baloch Women Panel(BWP) at a press conference in January 2005 condemning the Pakistani operation against Baloch people in New Kahan.
Baloch women students blocking the main highway in Quetta in protest on the martyrdom of Balach Khan Marri, November 2007.
A Baloch girl in Norway at a protest against Pakistani army’s killings of Baloch people, January 2006.
2 Comments
January 18, 2009 at 6:02 pm
our sincere wishes are with the students of balochistan keepit up keep the spirit high.
September 25, 2009 at 9:49 am
Balochistan liberation is near. We need unity, we don’t need Pakistan. I live or die Balochistan will be a country of balochs.