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| Balochistan: Khan contacts India and UK for Kalat documents |
| 2006-11-10 |
| QUETTA: Khan of Kalat Mir Suleman Dawood said on Thursday that he had contacted India and the UK for documents that showed the actual free status of the Kalat state before Partition. Talking to reporters in Kalat after his meeting with veteran Baloch politician Sardar Attaullah Mengal in Wadh, Dawood said he had asked the governments of India and the UK to provide the documents that would strengthen his case against Pakistan in the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Dawood, who is the first Khan of Kalat since 1839 to visit Wadh, said he had given his legal consultants the documents on the free status of Kalat that he already had, for them to move the ICJ soon. “Kalat was never a part of the sultanate of Dehli. We joined Pakistan under an agreement that promised us complete autonomy, but that agreement has been violated by Pakistani rulers. We have decided to go to the ICJ as a last resort,” he added. He said that since the crown of Britain was a also a custodian to the agreement between Pakistan and Kalat, Britain would also be made a part of the case at the ICJ. The purpose of moving the ICJ was to remind the international community that the Baloch were free people, he said, adding that the Baloch had always refused to live under the tutelage of Pakistan. Referring to his meeting with Sardar Attaullah Mengal, he said he had decided to consult all Baloch leaders on the situation in Balochistan following Nawab Akbar Bugti’s killing. “Because the Baloch are currently facing threats to their identity, we are not talking of provincial autonomy alone … we want the rulers of Pakistan to respect the agreement signed by the founder of Pakistan and the Khan of Kalat in 1947.” He ridiculed Islamabad over its failure to convene a jirga of Baloch sardars, which was scheduled to take place on November 8. “The government had to postpone its jirga because no respectable and loyal Baloch was willing to attend it. Any participant of the official jirga would have been be humiliated by his own people in Balochistan.” Endorsing Dawood’s stance, chief of the Mengal tribe Sardar Attaullah Mengal said Pakistan had “forcefully and illegally” occupied Balochistan. “All the Baloch have now agreed to join the Khan of Kalat in his battle for regaining the sovereignty of the Baloch land by moving the International Court of Justice (ICJ),” he said. “We are facing a common enemy that is determined to uproot our culture and identity.” |
| Posted by:john |
| #2 They don't talk, they only murder. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-11-10 13:43 |
| #1 This guy needs to fire his lawyers. ICJ handles cases between sovereign states |
| Posted by: john 2006-11-10 13:40 |