The Genesis of Baloch Nationalism by Salman Rafi Sheikh

Author:Salman Rafi Sheikh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2018-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

This particular dismissal again reinforces the hypothesis that we have advanced that Pakistan’s political problems were directly connected to the question of nationalities/national identity. As such, when the NAP government was dismissed, the question of national suppression of minority ethnic groups assumed even more significance. In fact, for the Baloch political leadership, it was a concrete case of ethnic domination and suppression and the historical refusal of the dominant ethnic group(s) to allow political accommodation to the suppressed ethnic groups.192 On the other hand, as is evident from the evidence produced in the previous chapters, the question of provincial autonomy or autonomy of sub-national ethnic groups within the federation of Pakistan was always necessarily presented by the state as an attempt to eventually disintegrate Pakistan. While the Baloch political leadership was convinced that the dismissal was an instance of national suppression of the Baloch people, the government of Pakistan was not prepared to give this matter any political significance and treat it as such. There were no ‘political’ crises in Balochistan, the central government believed, as a new regime had instantly been installed there and constitution implemented. Balochistan was thus officially de-politicized, and the Baloch were stripped of their right to protest against the central intervention.

It is not political in the sense that there is any difference between the status of Baluchistan and that of other three provinces of the Federation. Baluchistan enjoys the same degree of provincial autonomy as the Punjab, Sind or the North West Frontier Province. Nor is it political in the sense that the Constitutional process has been suspended in Baluchistan and or an alien regime foisted on it.193

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