Nuclear tests destroy beauty of Baloch homeland: report

by Ahmar Mustikhan | April 6, 2010 at 04:10 am

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The chant went out Allahu Akbar as Pakistan inflicted the worst harm on occupied Balochistan territory by conducting inhuman nuclear tests on May 28, 1998.

The tests were carried out against the wishes of the Balochistan natives.

Texas-sized Balochistan never wanted to become a part of Pakistan but was annexed at the point of gun on March 27, 1948. The nuclear tests were carried out exactly 50 years and two months later.

Pakistan nuclear scientist and father of the so-called Islamic bomb is lionized in Pakistan for masterminding the tests, but the Baloch say he is a "nuclear war criminal" who must be tried for destroying Baloch national land and underground water resources.

According to award-journalist Karlos Zurutuza, people used to go to Raspoh Mountain for a picnic day. It was a beautiful place where wildlife was a spectacle in itself. But in the mid-70´s they sent away the people living in the area and, of course, they restricted the access to everyone else. Then they started drilling galleries and tunnels. They were supposed to be used for the exploitation of copper and gold in the newly opened mines of Saindak. During the dictatorship of General Zia nobody really knew what was going on over there.

Devastating nuclear tests were conducted by the Pakistan military against the wishes of the Baloch people in Occupied Balochistan on May 28, 1998.

Pakistan nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan is lionized by many Pakistanis as their national hero, but the Baloch say he must be arrested and tried before a nuclear crimes tribunal for unleashing a holocaust on their homeland.

Zurutuza received the Shaheed Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti Reporting Award for excellence in reporting about Balochistan, bot Pakistan and Iran occupied parts, last year. Baloch national hero Mir Hyrbyair Marri gave him the award in London last fall on behalf of the pro-liberation American Friends of Balochistan.