حزب مردم بلوچستان  Balochistan People’s Party  بلوچستانءِ اُستمانءِ گــَل

28-06-2008

Israel is no match for Iran and cannot stop its nuclear program, Revolutionary Guards commander Mohammad Ali Jafari said in an interview to Iranian daily Jam-e Jam Saturday.

"This country [Israel] is completely within the range of the Islamic republic's missiles. Our missile power and capability are such that the Zionist regime - despite all its abilities - cannot confront it," Jafari said, according to an AFP report.

"There is the possibility that by attacking Iranian nuclear sites the enemy wants to delay our nuclear activities, but any interruption would be very short since Iranian scientific ability is different from that of Syria and Iraq."

Meanwhile, Reuters reported that Jafari warned countries in the region not to allow their territory to be used for any attack.

"If enemies from outside the region use the soil of regional countries against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the governments of those countries will be responsible and it is our obvious right to act in the same way against their military capabilities and abilities of enemies anywhere," he said.

The Iranian official also said that, if attacked, Iran would use oil as part of the confrontation.

"If there is a confrontation between us and the enemy from outside the region, definitely the scope [of the confrontation] will reach the oil issue," Jafari said.

"Naturally every country under attack by an enemy uses all its capacity and opportunities to confront the enemy. Regarding the main route for exiting energy, Iran will definitely act to impose control on the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz," he said. "After this action, the oil price will rise very considerably and this is among the factors deterring the enemies."

Also Saturday, former president Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said the West is "too small to punish a big country like Iran."

According to a report by the official IRNA news agency, Rafsanjani said in a prayers sermon Friday that "we have repeatedly advised that using the literature [of sanctions] in dealing with Iran will not be in favor of the west."

"The West should stop following a wrong approach towards Iran," the chairman of the regime's Assembly of Experts said. "With a great country like Iran, one should deal only with a proper literature, dialogue, logic and reason; otherwise, you would put the region in trouble without gaining anything."

Rafsanjani asserted that Iran seeks nuclear energy for peaceful purposes only, and said it was ready for dialog to win the world's confidence.

European Union nations approved new sanctions against Iran on Monday, including an assets freeze of the country's biggest bank, Bank Melli. On Tuesday the EU listed 20 Iranian companies and 15 individuals who will be affected by new financial and travel sanctions imposed due to Teheran's nuclear defiance.

http://www.jpost.com/

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Iran-Pakistan-India: Open letter to L.K. Advani

By Ahmar Khan; 28.06.2008

WASHINGTON DC: A Baluch journalist and founder of the American Friends of Baluchistan, whose family had known the Advanis in Karachi prior to partition, has urged former Indian deputy prime minister Sree L.K. Advani to stop the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline until such time the Baluch get their right to self determination.

Ahmar Mustikhan sent the copies of his Open Letter to the N.A.T.O leadership in Brussels and also to the Indian Ambassador to the United States, Ronen Sen.

In his letter, Mustikhan warned the pipeline means more bloodshed in Baluchistan where an army operation is still going on. Pakistan has promised foolproof security measures to protect the gas pipeline, but the Baluch say this will be built only on their dead bodies.

He urged Advani to open direct talks with the Baluch leaders, including the De Jure ruler of Baluchistan Khan of Kalat His Highness Suleman Daud Ahmedzai.

Following is the full text of Mustikhan's letter to Advani.

I want to draw your attention to the rank opportunism once again being shown by the present government of India. The Baluch people never expected this from India.

The Baluch in Baluchistan and the Baluch Diaspora are victims of the worst oppression of the Punjabi-Mohajir army generals in Pakistan and the mullahs in Iran, about which you know quite well as you are an ardent student of history yourself.

At this time in Baluch society, a strange gift is being offered by New Delhi to the people of Baluchistan-- I mean the signing of the Iran-Pakistan-India (I.P.I.) accord with Pakistan under the so-called “Look East” policy. The cruel gift came at a time when the Baluch and Sindhis join their Bengali brothers in mourning the passing away of General Sam Manekshaw, the liberator of Dhaka who helped stop the killing of Bengalis and ended the rape of their women at the hands of the butcher army of Pakistan.

Neither Iran nor Pakistan has any authority to sign an accord what passes through Baluch territories. The Baluch are resolved this gas pipeline will be built on their dead bodies. I assure you at least five million of the 20 or so million Baluch will sacrifice their lives to ensure that the occupying powers of Islamabad and Teheran are duly defeated in Baluchistan. With the help of the world, they will uphold the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of Baluchistan.

Pakistan’s minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was quoted by the Press Trust of India news agency as saying Pakistan will “provide fool-proof security” for the planned 2,600-kilometre pipeline, expected to pass through the volatile Baluchistan region. The Pakistani authorities have already gifted Ghulam Haider Raisani to be hanged by the mullahs in Iran as a gift. What Qureshi is promising is more Baluch bodies.

Enough is enough

You are one of the finest sons of Sindh, notwithstanding the total idiosyncrasy of raiding the Babri Mosque which was a ruder slap on the Hindu philosophy of tolerance. That action was more akin to what Muslims do and the late Sain G.M. Syed of Sindh had clearly warned you against it.Forgive me for saying that but sometimes the feet of saints are also made of clay and I am sure history will not judge you kindly for that action. That said, you command my respect for your principled stand against Islamic extremism.

My family elders had known and respected some of the Advani family members in Karachi. Your relatives still live in a beautiful house near the Beach Luxury Hotel in Karachi. As you may recall, Karachi was once mostly a Baluch city. The ethnic Baluch numbered nearly 250,000 out of the roughly 400, 00 people in Karachi at the time of the 1947 partition holocaust. The rest were Sindhis, both Muslims and Hindus. Karachi was then called the Paris of the East, before the marauding Muslim mohajirs came as freeloaders and bounty hunters from India to destroy Sindh as part of the ill-conceived partition plan.

Sindh and Sindhis were one of the first to suffer because of Pakistan's creation. My late father used to own rental apartments near Jubilee Cinema in old Karachi and recalled that prior to partition when Sindhi Hindus were his tenants they always paid their rent on time and were very polite and courteous. But after August 1947 when my father went to collect rents from the Muslim delinquents, they not only refused to pay the rent but cussed my dad, telling him the peaceful grass eating Hindus--some Muslims call Hindus grass eaters as they are mostly vegetarian--have left for India and that they will "show" him. "That was the day when I realized what a monster (Pakistan), Jinnah has created," my father told me.

The case of Baluchistan was totally different from Sindh: it never opted for Pakistan and was an independent state under the Khan of Kalat, Mir Ahmadyar Khan. It remained independent for more than seven months until it was unlawfully annexed by Pakistan. My uncle the late A. Sattar Mustikhan was named Baluchistan’s ambassador to Pakistan and the flag of Baluchistan flew over our house in Garden East, right across from Gandhi Zoological Garden which you might still remember. My uncle said Sindhi feudal lords never spoke in front of Jinnah as they were afraid of the British wrath and knew quite well that Jinnah was a British agent.

Pakistan’s cruelty against Baluchistan has few parallels in modern world history. Just last month, three Bugti tribesmen were burnt alive by the Pakistani occupation forces. Almost every family in Baluchistan has lost a loved one and is grieving: Pakistan army killed former governor and chief minister Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, provincial assembly member Nawabzada Bala’ach Marri, Mir Asadullah Mengal, Nawab Nauroz Khan Zarakzai and his sons-- after promising them safety on the Quran— Safar Khan, Hameed Shaheed, Dr Khalid Shaheed, the list is endless and thousands of unknown soldiers who sacrificed their life for the sake of Baluchistan. An army officer himself told me that during the military operations, the soldiers would cut off the genitals of rebel tribesmen and throw them from helicopters on their villages to extract information but the Baluch were so loyal to their cause that they would rather die than betray the resistance.

One of the worst atrocities against Baluchistan was the illegal testing of Pakistan’s Islamic Bomb on May 28, 1998. Those tests have left a huge tract of Baluch lands unsafe and since then native tribesmen have complained of strange skin diseases and untimely death of their livestock. People from my tribe called Gorgej are among the many tribesmen who have also been displaced from the Chagai area.

The game Pakistan’s I.S.I and Punjabi army generals are playing in neighboring Afghanistan is not hidden from anyone. The Afghan authorities have clearly blamed Pakistan for the bloodletting in Afghanistan, and we fully support President Hamid Karzai’s stand on the issue. The I.S.I. last April tried to assassinate President Karzai, according to Afghan officials.

I have absolutely no doubts in my mind that just like the killing of Pakistani premiers Nawabzada Liauqat Ali Khan, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani army generals and secret services were involved in the assassination of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. Just as a matter of record, a few days prior to the assassination of Indira Gandhi the drawings of “head and skull” mysteriously appeared on the walls of Karachi University.

There is no doubt in our minds that Pakistan is the epicenter of global terrorism as it is the headquarters of assorted terrorist organizations, ranging from Al Qaeda, and Taliba’an to the M.Q.M. We are of the considered opinion that one-eyed Mullah Omar, who was hell bent on keeping Afghanistan in the Stone Age was a poster boy of the Pakistan army, and is still being sheltered by Pakistani soldiers.

To end the 60 years of blood, bodies and tears in Baluchistan, the de jure ruler of Baluchistan Khan of Kalat His Highness Suleman Daud Ahmedzai is knocking the doors of the International Court of Justice at the Hague. We urge you to prevail upon the Indian Government to call a stop to the project until such time the case is decided and the Baluch right to self-determination is recognized by the Punjabi-Mohajir army generals and the Iranian mullahs. We also urge you to initiate direct, official talks with the Khan of Kalat and other nationalist Baluch leaders including Sardar Akhtar Mengal, Sardar Attauallah Mengal, Nawabzada Brahamdagh Bugti, Nawab Khair Baksh Marri, Mir Hasil Bizenjo, Dr. Abdul Hayee Baluch, Ghulam Mohammed Baluch, Baluch Unity, Nasser Boladai, and leaders of the Baluch Students Organization for any construction of any pipeline that passes through Baluch soil.

Former chief minister of Baluchistan Sardar Akhtar Mengal, who was recently released from prison, voiced the collective concern of the Baluch and has categorically stated in public that the Baluch will not allow the pipeline.

Just to let you know one of the founders of Baluch nationalism former governor of Baluchistan, Baba-i-Baluchistan Mir Ghous Bakhsh Bizenjo, who was one of our closest family friends, told me the independence of Baluchistan was duly broadcast by the All India Radio. He said the Kalat State National Party had dispatched him with a team to meet Maulana Abul Kalam Azad to thwart any Pakistani misadventure in Baluchistan, but that Maulana told them not to make any trouble as it would give the British a pretext to delay their departure from India. Now it’s time for India to pay back to the Baluch.

I again urge you not to let the secular people of Baluchistan plunge into blood. Please do the right thing and stop the project until such time the Baluch case at the I.C.J. is decided and the people of Occupied Baluchistan in Pakistan and Iran get their right to self determination.

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Al-Arabiya flirting with terrorists

By Hassan Hanizadeh ; June 24, 2008 ; Tehran Times

The Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite television network, which is owned by a rich Arab prince from a Persian Gulf state, has recently established relations with Abdolmalek Rigi, the ringleader of the Jundullah terrorist group, and is trying to cast his criminal acts in a positive light.

The TV network, which was set up to counter the Al-Jazeera network, is currently implementing three major propaganda campaigns.

The first propaganda campaign of the Al-Arabiya network, which was established with a one-billion dollar investment, aims to give a favorable spin to the regional policies of Washington and Tel Aviv and to break the taboo against holding talks with the Zionist regime’s officials. Long live interviews with the Zionist prime minister, war minister, and foreign minister all provide evidence of this objective.

The second propaganda campaign aims to raise doubts about the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear activities. Through its biased news reports and analyses, Al-Arabiya is attempting to give citizens of regional countries the impression that Iran has a nuclear weapons program, which is the same strategy the Zionist media is following.

The goal of the third propaganda campaign is to give the impression that the Shias are a threat.

The network constantly broadcasts news reports and analyses about the phantom menace of Shiism and the Shia crescent and posts these stories on its Arabic and Persian websites every day.

The Persian website of Al-Arabiya, which was recently launched with the help of the U.S. State Department and Persian speakers living in the U.S., is under the direct supervision of U.S. psychological warfare experts and a certain Arab country’s cultural attaché’s office in Washington.

The wide coverage of interviews and film clips about the kidnappings of Iranian border guards by Abdolmalek Rigi’s Jundullah terrorist network, which has committed vicious crimes against the citizens of Sistan-Baluchestan Province in southeastern Iran, clearly demonstrates that U.S. and Israeli experts, with the cooperation of certain well-known Arab journalists, are jointly directing the network’s psychological warfare campaign.

While the U.S. claims it is engaged in a relentless campaign against terrorism, the Voice of America and Al-Arabiya are making coordinated efforts to depict the criminal acts of the Jundullah group in southeastern Iran as revolutionary acts.

The Al-Arabiya network was launched by the Arab prince after the September 11 attacks with the goal of eradicating prejudice against Arabs in the United States.

Through a $20 billion donation to the U.S. Republicans, the Arab prince was able to get the dossier of the September 11 attacks closed, but one of the U.S. preconditions was that the network had to give positive coverage to U.S. and Israeli policies in the region.

Thus, it became clear what kind of policy the network would adopt.

For example, during Israel’s 33-day war against Lebanon, Al-Arabiya tried to downplay the victories of the Hezbollah forces and make it appear that the Lebanese resistance movement was responsible for the war. Afterwards, it aired the religious decrees against Lebanon’s Shia Hezbollah forces issued by certain Salafi clergymen.

Another strange event that occurred during the 33-day war was the fact that Al-Arabiya gave extensive coverage to statements issued by 22 Wahhabi clerics, including Sheikh Abdullah bin Jabrin, Sheikh Abdurrahman al-Barak, and Sheikh Naser al-Amri, in which they called Hezbollah takfiri (extremists who believe they are the only true Muslims).

In other recent reports that were aired repeatedly by Al-Arabiya, these clerics again called Shias takfiris, said their practice of visiting holy shrines is haram (forbidden in Islam), and asked regional governments to prevent the formation of a Shia government in Iraq.

Despite these slanders, Hezbollah was the first Arab army that was able to defeat Israel in 60 years.

Whereas in the Six-Day War of 1967, the Israeli army captured over 80,000 kilometers of Arab territory (eight times the size of Lebanon) in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, East Beit-ul-Moqaddas, Palestine’s Negev Desert, Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Sharm al-Sheik, and Al-Arish, Jordan’s Wadi Arab, and Syria’s Golan Heights, the Zionist regime was humiliated by Hezbollah in the 2006 war.

This victory, and the fact that it was cheered by Arab nations, angered Wahhabi and Salafi leaders, so they felt compelled to issue statements condemning Hezbollah.

Al-Arabiya has even tried to downplay the achievements of the recent Doha deal, in which the rival Lebanese groups agreed to elect a president and form a national unity government.

Al-Arabiya’s approach toward Iran’s peaceful nuclear program and the Shias of the region and its bias toward the Jundullah terrorist group show that the hidden hands behind the network are pursuing an Iranophobia strategy in order to sow discord among Muslims and marginalize the Shias.