The Baloch Conflict with Iran and Pakistan: Aspects of a National Liberation Struggle by Naseer Dashti

Author:Naseer Dashti [Dashti, Naseer]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781490780924
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2017-02-09T16:00:00+00:00

LACK OF EXTERNAL SUPPORT

The lack of external support and the antagonistic attitude of the Western powers towards the Baloch national struggle was another factor in the collapse of the movement. The 1970s was the era when the Cold War was in its peak. Any national liberation struggle was seen by Western powers as an extension of Soviet influence. Suppression of such a struggle was one of their strategic goals in order to counter the Soviet advance. Unfortunately, as the Baloch national struggle from the very beginning has been anti-imperialist and left oriented, it was comfortably exploited by the Pakistani establishment, who gained vital diplomatic, and military assistance from the West to crush it. On the other hand, no support was extended to the political or armed resistance of the Baloch by the Soviet Bloc countries. In the initial stages of the movement, Afghanistan did offer refuge to Baloch activists and Kabul Radio broadcasts propagated the Baloch and Pashtun point of view but no commitment was given for the continued support of ‘Baloch Cause’ neither there was any military help of substance given to the Baloch resistance. When the Pakistani leader Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and President Sardar Muhammad Daud Khan of Afghanistan agreed to stop supporting opponents of each other in 1976, the meagre support was also stopped and many Baloch refugees were asked to leave the country. Lack of any support from the international community contributed significantly to the defeat of the resistance in the 1970s.

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