Natives protest, but pro-bin Laden ex-premier celebrates Pakistan nukes

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(Free-Press-Release.com) May 30, 2008 --
TORONTO: Baluch families in Canada on Wednesday
demonstrated in Toronto against the nuclear tests in
Occupied Baluchistan ten years ago and demanded of the
international community to bring the Pakistan Army to
justice..
The aggrieved families distributed pamphlets
explaining the plight of the Baluch people in Pakistan
and Iran.
“ The Islamic fundamentalists and their uniformed
brethren, the Pakistani army, rejoiced the testing of
the first Islamic bomb,” said Zafar Baloch, a leader

of the Baluch Human Rights Council of Canada. “The
foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran sent
his greetings to the Pakistani government of the time
while the world leaders were shocked and pleaded for
sanctions against Pakistan,” he said.
Imtiaz Baloch, another activist said the tragic event
was followed by further tests in the Chagai district
of Balochistan devastating all life form, including
the livelihood of the nomadic Baloch tribesmen.
He said tens of thousands of Baluch tribemsmen who
were forced by the army to leave their ancestral

pastoral lands and migrate to other areas.
“In the last ten years, Baluchistan has become
Pakistan ’s frontline testing ground for advance
nuclear warhead carrying missile technology borrowed
from China and North Korea,” Imtiaz Baloch said.
Zafar Baloch was of the view that the WMDs being
developed in Pakistan today are part of the Chinese
hegemonic design of expansionism in the region to
control the energy centers, which include the Deep Sea
Port Development of Gwadar in Balochistan, the gateway
to oil and gas reserves in Central Asia and the Middle
East .

“The local inhabitants of Balochistan are being
forcefully displaced and slaughtered through a brutal
military operation so that their resources and land
stays in the hands of the Pakistan Army for
exploitation and military adventures,” said Imtiaz
Baloch.
The Baluch families in Toronto were carrying the
pictures of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, former chief
minister and governor of Baluchistan, who was killed
in an army operation as he protested the exploitation
of Baluch resources at the hands of the dominant
Punjabi.
The families raised slogans against nuclear radiation

and demanded that father of the so-called Islamic
Bomb, A.Q. Khan be brought to justice.
The Toronto Baluch protesters also condemned the
unspoken Berlin Wall that divides baluch families
living in Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan.
Jay Askani said the situation in the Iranian occupied
Balochistan is getting worse where public hanging of
Baloch youth has become a common practice of the
Islamic regime. “Iran ’s nuclear program is based on
the technology that was secretly passed on to them by
Pakistani military generals and A.Q. Khan,” Askani
said..

Canadian citizens showed a keen interest in the
goings-on in Baluchistan and the local Omni TV covered
the protest in its news.
“The rally was aimed to to save the world from
terrorism and nuclear catastrophe,” Imtiaz Baluch
said.
Similar protests were held in Washington DC, Quetta,
Karachi, Gwadur, Chagai.
In contrast to the Baluch protests the ruling
Punjabis, once again celebrated the event as
Yom-Takbir or Great Day. Pakistan's former prime
minister Mian Nawaz Sharif, who is believed to be
close to bin Laden led the celebrations in the military

stronghold of Punjab.

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