Quetta, Nov 3 (NVI) In a horrific incident in Pakistan-occupied Balochistan, the Pakistani military has killed 18 innocent Baloch youth on a picnic and falsely labelled them as “terrorists”.
“Those killed were Baloch youth who were on a picnic point in the Chiltan mountains,” Chairman of Baloch National Movement (BNM) Dr Naseem Baloch said today, while terming as “completely false and fabricated” the claim by Pakistani military’s media wing — Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) — about the troops killing “18 Indian-sponsored terrorists” in Balochistan.
He said Pakistani forces used combat drones and gunship helicopters to target the innocent youth, “a horrific act that has become a routine in Balochistan under the guise of so-called ‘counter-terrorism operations’.”
Describing the incident as an “aggression by the coloniser”, Dr Baloch underlined that, “There is no ‘Indian-sponsored terrorism’ in Balochistan but Pakistan itself is a terrorist state involved in Baloch Genocide.”
He asserted that “The people of Balochistan are not foreign agents” but “are native Baloch, struggling for their freedom, and dignity, in their own homeland.”
Pakistan’s repeated attempts to brand the Baloch national struggle as foreign-sponsored are nothing but propaganda designed to justify its crimes and deflect global attention from its atrocities, said the chief of BNM, which is a frontline organisation struggling politically for liberation of Balochistan from Pakistan.
“These killings are part of Pakistan’s systematic campaign of collective punishment against the Baloch nation,” he said.
The Baloch leader urged the international community, the United Nations, and global human rights organizations to take immediate notice of these war crimes and hold Pakistan accountable.
“The world must break its silence. The Baloch nation’s cry for freedom will not be silenced by Pakistan’s lies and bullets,” he said.
“As a nation, we also hope that India and other neighbouring countries will stand on the right side of history to support the Baloch people morally, diplomatically, and politically in their just struggle for freedom,” the BNM leader said in a social media post. (NVI)
