QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani on Saturday strongly condemned resolution moved in the US Congress in support of separatists and termed it interference in Pakistan’s internal affairs and violation of international laws.
He demanded the federal government to protest with the United States in this connection. He has also asked American government to keep anti Pakistan Senators and members of Congress away from such activities.
Expressing his concerns over the said resolution, the chief minister said that the member of US Congress, Dana Rohrabacher who tabled the resolution, was a disputed personality and his anti Pakistan sentiments were not hidden from anyone.
He had filed a bill to stop Pakistan’s assistance in Congress after Abbotabad operation. He also had taken a stand to return wreckage of crashed American helicopter used in the Abbottabad raid.
Raisani said it was the same man who in the early 1990 while supporting Taliban had claimed Taliban were members of an organised morale society and they wanted real progress and terming them terrorist was not correct by any mean.
“He also supported terrorist Mohiuddin in 2007 who was imprisoned in US for his involvement in killing of women and children in Bangladesh.”
“Now the same Republican Congress man has moved a misleading resolution in the House of Representatives about Balochistan situation in which it has been stated that in 1958, 1973 and 2005 resistances were demonstration of people’s opinion against Rule of Islamabad,” said the chief minister.
“Any separation movement in Balochistan is nothing but an adventure for him (Dana Rohrabacher),” said Raisani.
The chief minister said there was an elected and politically representative government in Balochistan which has representation of every area of the province and it has been elected by the people.
He said the resolution moved in the US Congress was not only against sovereignty of Pakistan but it also assailed the mandate of Balochistan people.
He said tabling resolution at a time when presidents of Afghanistan and Iran were attending trilateral conference in Pakistan, was nothing but an attempt to create rift among the countries of the region.
The chief minister urged the federal government to persist with the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project and other common projects in energy sector without tolerating any outside interference.
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