would be conducted by the Frontier Corps.
When I retired from the army in 1993 it was said that in Balochistan
the people either feared the FC (Frontier Corps) or Allah ! Jokes
aside this meant that the FC being a force governed by law of jungle
fired without restraint , killed without remorse and operated above
all laws.It was common that the FC killed civilians and buried them
unreported, as many other government functionaries do in Balochistan !
I asked an outstanding Sindhi Pashtun then serving in Intelligence
Bureau as to what the Intelligence Bureaus role ? He replied to make
one tribe fight another or one ethnic group fear or distrust another
and similarly in case of sects so that the state rules with ease !
The Frontier Corps (FC ) was basically a cheap colonial force to
control the difficult natives in NWFP and Balochistan Agency ! Almost
wholly Pashtun this force was deployed against rebellious Pashtun
tribes as well as the Baloch and some international Islamic
revolutionaries then known as Hindustani fanatics and Wahabis !
FC is divided into two types of corps i.e Internal Security (IS) and
Anti Smuggling .
Altghough initially a border force in Balochistan , FC Corps were
raised in all parts of Balochistans interior and borders after 1947
and by 1985 nearly district of Balochistan had an FC Corps !
The FC was nearly 90 % if not 95 % Pashtun although Punjabi
recruitment has been reportedly increased lately ! It was
traditionally more active in border areas while its IS corps were not
employed in active policing !
Broadly following can or may be the implications of employment of FC
in Balochistan :--
1. Politically a Machiavellian act letting loose a wholly Pashtun
force on Baloch tribes or parties involved in fighting a political war
of liberation against a successor state of British Empire. Seen in
this context the exercise can very quickly deteriorate into ethnic
cleansing !
2. Rendering the political government of Balochistan (although not
truly representative thanks to boycott of elections by mainstream
Baloch parties) nearly hundred percent powerless in matters of
policing and internal security.This will happen because the FC is
officered by the Pakistani military and nominally functions under
Ministry of Interior while in reality it is controlled by the corps
commander in Quetta !
3. While the military is to some extent multi ethnic the FC is a
wholly or near wholly Pashtun force organized on tribal and sub tribal
lines ! This when enforced would be a very dangerous combination
politically as well as ethnically !
4. This exercise would be the first step in imposing military rule in
Balochistan alone ! The spineless chief minister already despised by
all ethnic groups will either become a figure head or will resign or a
situation may arise where Balochistans assembly is dissolved leading
to governors rule !
5. Escalation of the ongoing Balochistan war from a disorganized war
into a full fledged war of Baloch with federal government thus leading
to eventual induction of regular military and a full fledged military
counter insurgency operation in Balochistan.
6. There is a school of thought in Pakistani establishment which
thinks that physical elimination and disappearance should be the only
strategy in Balochistan and is confident that because of less
population the Baloch can be eliminated like Australias aboriginals
and USAs Red Indians.This is the Musharraf school of thought which
actually initiated this genocide in Balochistan as early as 2002
further mixed with strategy of demographic change like Gwadar and
Greater Kacchi Canal which would turn balochistan into a Punjabi and
Pashtun majority province !
7. The Balochistan strategy is being implemented in consonance with
Afghanistan where the Paskistani establishments military and civilian
bureaucrats think that a Taliban victory is imminent in Afghanistan !
How to get out of this quagmire :---
1. This is a regional issue and not a Pakistan alone issue ! In Indo
Pak unless there is a solution of the big state or the smaller states
issue this conflict will go on ! Plebiscite in Kashmir would lead to
plebiscites in Balochistan and in many parts of India and Pakistan !
The wholre conflict is interlinked ! All major insurgents whether
Afghan Taliban , Kashmiris,Maoists,Naxalites or Baloch have genuine
grievances as well as state sponsors !
2. The final issue if not decided politically will be decided by a
final Indo Pak war which now seems imminent by 2012 or 2013 .
History will not forgive nations which use genocide as a political weapon !
What I see ahead is more and more disorder and anarchy ! We salute the
age of perpetual strategic anarchy in Pakistan ! Perhaps the whole
edifice will come down !
--
Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of punishment and hope of reward after death." --
Albert Einstein !!!
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