Balochistan's volcanic eruption

The Pakistani military is robbing the baloch people and raping their women.

The Friday Times(no direct link)

The crisis in Balochistan is enveloped in a curtain of official censorship, public ignorance, tribal honour and military arrogance. There are two aspects to it. First, there is the local conflict in Dera Bugti in which Sui gas installations continue to be rocketed by Bugti tribesmen and officials of the Defense Security Group (DSG) and Frontier Corps are being fatally targeted. Second, there is the “nationalist resistance” to central rule led by the shadowy Baloch Liberation Army in which military targets in Balochistan are under attack. Behind the scenes, negotiations are being conducted between Islamabad and representatives of the small Baloch nationalist parties and groups over the terms and conditions of local employment and compensation contracts by the gas companies as well as over the amount of royalties and federal development outlays and handouts for Balochistan province and their distribution between the provincial and local administrations.

A young lady doctor was gang-raped at Sui recently. At first, the PPL and DSG tried to destroy the evidence and denied the incident. Then the woman was spirited out to Karachi and told to shut up. At no stage was the local police allowed to meet and interrogate her. But when the police turned up sperm and blood evidence of rape at the scene of the crime, the PPL/DSG reluctantly allowed an FIR against “unknown assailants” However, Nawab Bugti insisted that one of the rapists was Captain Hammad of the DSG. But the military flatly rejected the allegation. Indeed, the local and national media was advised not to print Nawab Bugti’s allegations. Outraged, the Bugtis joined ranks and vowed resistance. The local military commanders now want to “sort them out”. But that may be easier said than done. If the Bugtis are not calmed down and military action is precipitated, the gas compression and precipitation plants at Sui could be attacked and destroyed with disastrous consequences.