KARACHI, Dec 2: The Baloch Rabita Ittefaq Tehrik (BRIT) has called for holding an all-Pakistan Baloch national convention to discuss the problems being faced by the Baloch people in view of the situation in Afghanistan.

The proposal was made by the BRIT chief Prince Mohyuddin Baloch, a former federal communication minister in the Zia-Junejo regime, while speaking to a select gathering of Baloch intellectuals and writers. The programme was organized by the Baloch Writers’ Forum here on Sunday.

He said after the successful military action in Afghanistan, the US would never leave the region and would play a role of a super imperial power.

He argued that the Afghan situation would have a direct impact on Balochistan, saying that millions of refugees had already entered the province.

Moreover, Prince Mohyuddin said, the US had strengthened itself in the province by establishing military bases in the coastal as well as in areas bordering Afghanistan. He feared that “the division of Afghanistan on ethnic basis will ultimately result in the bifurcation of Balochistan on linguistic basis.”

He urged the Baloch politicians, tribal leaders and intellectuals to hold a national convention in Karachi to discuss the “impending threat to the national existence of the Baloch.”