Washington DC: July 15, 2010. (PCP) "It's a civil war," journalist Malik Siraj Akbar declared on phone from Quetta.
And the thought crossed my mind : may the Punjabi generals never covet your homeland; if they do Balochistan might become a second Afghanistan.
As I pen these lines, I share the pall of gloom and massive anguish that has descended over Balochistan in the wake of the killing of two seasoned political activists, who jointly had more than six decades of struggle behind them: Habib Jalib Baloch and Maula Bakhsh Dashti. Even if the two slain leaders had serious political differences with organizations that are closest to my heart, like for instance the Baloch Students Organization [Azad] of Baloch folk heroine Banuk Karima Baloch -- the first-ever female to be charged with sedition in Pakistan --, or for that matter the two party of martyrs, Baloch National Movement and Baloch Republican Party, that does not mean I shall stop short from condemning their murders in the strongest possible terms.
Let me go in the time tunnel more than three decades back.
"Revolution in the Revolution?" by Regis Debray was once his favorite book more than 30 years ago and he highly recommended the book to others. He was reputed to be so enthusiastic about political polemics and debate, that according to his own token he could talk non-stop on Balochistan liberation for four days in a row.
