Has Our Fences Have Divided Our Humanity?

Today the world is quite a safe ball, with different omnipotent committees and communities working for maintaining world peace all year round.

In this world of invisible connecting threads and signals joining 192 countries, news flashing on us every minute, there are still many who are left unheard.

While we have created a safe fence around us, we are even unable to listen to the screams and moaning of our own neighbours.

Since 1947, we have only been fighting and hurdling up rage against our neighbour. While we have only considered Pakistan as an epicentre of terrorism and barbarity, there is still a part of it, where people lay in the crutches of its own democracy.

Baluchistan is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. It is the largest province in the country, covering 44 percent of the total area. The population is 1.3 crore, which is merely 7 percent of the total population of the country.

According to the Pakistan Hindu Council, the Hindu population of Baluchistan is 117,345. About 13,512 Hindus live in Lasbela district.

Minorities face threats and have been under attack in Baluchistan, the southwestern province of Pakistan. The province is struggling with an insurgency and Christians, Shias, Hazaras and Hindus are unsafe.

Reasons date back to 1947 partition when the balochis made a choice to return back but were constrained within the wires and living in that soil these people have been facing atrocities for years in their own country and are compelled to be left with no choice but to run to other countries.

Jay Prakash Moorani, a senior journalist and president of the Hyderabad Union of Journalists, said Hindus are targeted because they are business oriented and effective in trade. “The Hindu community is influential not only in Balochistan, but also Sindh,” he says.

In December 2018,Baluchistan National Party (Mengal)(BNP-M) leader,Akhtar Mengalpresented a list of 5,000 missing person to the newly formed government ofImran Khan. But yet no such prominent steps aren't visible from the authoritarians.

Karima Baloch, a woman human rights activist from Baluchistan, said, “We have an ethic issue of Baloch freedom. But today we want to make the world aware about human rights issues in Baluchistan." She said that in Baluchistan, thousands of people are missing and their houses are being destroyed in bombardments. "Many missing persons are being killed and their mutilated bodies are recovered. Many Baloch are still missing for many years.”

Taj Baloch, Head of Human Rights Council of Baluchistan said, “The human rights situation in Baluchistan is getting worse since 2012. Earlier, it was only enforced disappearance which is already a crime, and then the extra-judicial killings. Now, they have started burning villages and expelling the entire population without any compensation.

The Baloch political activists expressed concern over the fact that despite belonging to one of the richest lands in the world, the people of Baluchistan are among the poorest of the poor. This is because of the ruthless exploitation of their resources by Pakistan state, they said.

Such heinousness has been going on for years but we were dumb and blind to such voices, until recently our pertinent Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, showed its support towards the miserable conditions of the Balochis.

This scenario isn’t new to a country who has been under the whips of the British for 200 years, Pakistan then being a part before partition. Pakistan itself a victim of the atrocities by the foreigners and yet exhibiting such harsh treatment on its own people, brings out the true picture of how the basic roots of humanity have been plunged out of the residents. These people might be beyond our fences but they do lie within our humanitarian obligations.

Shouldn’t they deserve our voices as a replacement of their muted ones?