A LEADING columnist in the country has excluded the army or the FC for
taking the blame of deteriorating law and order situation in
Balochistan. If it is not taken as a fashion, I beg to agree with what
he says in his careful study of Balochistan`s history, especially after
the independence.
His conclusion is that the Balochistan issue is
not political but an issue of administrative delinquency caused by
inept successive federal and provincial governments and by hoards of
sardars and their attempt to save the antiquated sardari system for
selfish reasons.
Some of the root causes are the federal
government`s incompetence and inability toabolish the sardari system,
the self-serving behaviour of sardars enjoying unlimited powers over the
poor tribal Baloch, just as they did 200 years ago, and the interest of
foreign powers in the strategic location of Balochistan.
Solution
to all these problems require many steps and corrective actions as no
solution will be meaningful until the sardari system is permanently
abolished, with no sardar using the word `nawab` or `sardar as a title.
To
him (the columnist), Balochistan requires the governor`s rule which
must be imposed immediately after abolishing the Sardari system.
It
is true that at present Balochistan is not in a position to run its own
provincial governmentand will not be ready for several years after the
socio-political situation has been stabilised by removing all ill
effects of the Sardari system and private armies.
`The province
needs to be disarmed as the top priority.` One wonders that the Baloch,
hostage in the hands of their sardars, are themselves responsible for
the present condition, which has been exploited by political mainstream
of the country, the centre and indirectly the army, perhaps for national
interest. This we need to consider and move for its solution as early
as possible.
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