The Balochistan activists along with few Indians protested outside the United Nations headquarters in New York, when Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was addressing the UNGA.
Reports said that the crowd shouted slogans such as ‘Free Balochistan’, ‘Down Down Pakistan’, ‘Save World from Pakistan Terror’ along with banners and placards that reads ‘US Government Stop Giving Funds to Pakistan’, ‘Kashmiri Hindus Are Humans, Wake Up To Their Sufferings’, ‘Remove Pakistan from the UN’, ‘Stop Atrocities in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir’ and ‘Killing Fields of Pakistan-Singh and Balochistan’.
The founder of the American Friends of Balochistan, Ahmar Musti Khan, while speaking to a news agency said, “Pakistan is a terror state and does not want the people of Balochistan to live in peace.” He added that Pakistan and its leaders are committing crimes against the residents of Kashmir, demanding that the country stop ‘exporting terror and let its neighbors live in peace’.
Khan further said that Pakistan should respect the right to self determination of the Baloch people. He said that Baloch people are ‘indebted’ to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for speaking out for Balochistan’s right and right of the Baloch people to be the masters of our own destiny.
By slamming the Pakistani government for its brutalities against the innocent Balochis, he said, “Pakistan Army is ISIS in uniform”. The another organization Baloch National Movement (BNM) condemned the Pakistani atrocities and the ‘ongoing military operations’ in Sindh and Balochistan.
The BNM said, “Baloch and Sindhi people appeal to the freedom loving citizens of America and the world to support our demands for freedom, peace, and justice. We, the victims of Pakistani state aggression and crimes against humanity, want to tell the world that ‘Pakistan is a nuclear-armed terrorist state’ and must be stopped.”
BNM has also condemned the ‘barbaric’ terror attack on the Uri Camp and the Pathankot air base and said that such attacks are part of Pakistan’s policy of “aggression, employing terrorist methods and outfits to escalate war in the region”.
Earlier, on Wednesday. BNM said that since 2003, more than 20,000 Baloch political activists have gone missing, illegally abducted by the Pakistani state security forces. It further alleged, “The victims of enforced disappearances are being tortured and executed in custody in thousands.”
The former President of the Overseas Friends of BJP, Jayesh Patel said that Pakistan should stop terrorism against India. Condemning the Uri Attack he said, “The families of our soldiers are the worst sufferers.”
By Prajakt K.
