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India’s foreign policy in the 21st Century is appraised due to the interplay of geoeconomics with geopolitics and India’s search for a visible and a constructive role on the global map, the need for sustainable economic growth, energy security, food security and border disputes on the one hand and the United States’ Pivoting Asia and expecting India to take the lead role on the Indian Ocean. Indian foreign policy is going through great churning like never before, with benefit to India being central to all moves. The end result is difficult to judge as of now. Today India is following a dynamic foreign policy, on each issue. Our country’s commercial and trade interests are supreme and today we give to others the same terms we get from them.
For years, both China and Pakistan have been funding people who create terror and extremism in India both on the borders and inside the country. Government of India is now making an issue of annexed areas like Baluchistan should be given back to their people along with independence. It is now for the first time taking about such issues a bold step in the right direction, and gets their people the human rights denied to them for long. A new India which is not taking things lying down, a tooth for a tooth, Pakistan and its Army has not dreamt of this changed India. By invoking Balochistan freedom struggle,PM targeted both Pakistan & China,whose CPEC depends on safe passage from Gwadar.I
The British after winning the war against the Baluch king divided the territory of (originally called Kalat for centuries) Baluchistan into three parts, one each going to Iran, Afghanistan and British India, now with Pakistan. When Pakistan was born in 1947, the rulers of the Khanate of Kalat, which was a princely state under the British and part of today’s Balochistan, refused to join the new nation. Pakistan sent troops in March 1948 to annex the territory. Though Yar Khan, the then ruler of Kalat, later signed a treaty of accession, his brothers and followers continued to fight, triggering the first conflict between Balochis and the Pakistani Army. So far, there were five waves of insurgencies. After the 1948 rebellion was put down, crisis erupted in 1958. In 1962-63 and 1973-77, there were violent campaigns by the >Baloch nationalists for independence from Pakistan . The two decades after that was the calmest period in the history of Balochistan.But tensions started building up after General Pervez Musharraf seized power in 1999. When the military started building new cantonments in Balochistan, it was seen by radical nationalist factions as a bid by the Army to tighten control over the region. The fifth wave of insurgency that broke out in this context is still on. According to Amnesty International’s 2015-16 annual report on Pakistan, “enforced disappearances continued with impunity” in Balochistan and other parts of the country.
“Histrocial Balochistan covers the southern part of Sistan o Baluchestan province of Iran in the west, the Pakistani province of Baluchistan in the east, and in the northwest Afghanistan’s Helmand province. Most Balochi’s live in part that falls within Pakistan’s borders .Geographically, Baluchistan province is the largest region of Pakistan, comprising of 44% of the country’s total area, with 5% of the total population” This Mineral rich area has not been developed till date. The province is now holding greater importance in Pakistan’s grand economic and geopolitical strategies. It’s one of the important locations in the economic corridor China has proposed to build at an investment of $46 billion linking the deepwater port of Gwadar with the city of Kashgar, a trading hub in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang. The much publicised the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline is also planned to go through Balochistan. To implement these big-ticket projects successfully, Pakistan should either buy peace with the insurgents or put them down militarily.
Another area of conflict is the Durand line separating Afghanistan and Pakistan, forced by the British on the Amir Abdur Rahman Khan of Afghanistan on 12 th November 1893 dividing the Pashtun people between Pakistan and Afghanistan, is not endorsed by any Afghan government past or present, including the Taliban. The stated position of all Afghan Governments on the Durand Line is the same. Neither the imaginary Durand Line nor any similar line is acceptable to the Afghan people.
Independent Pashtunistan can also soon be a reality with areas from Afghanistan and Pakistan making up their country. The Pashtun people are Sunni Muslims. The actions in the area for an Independent Kurdistan are also having ramifications on freedom movements of other ethnic groups divided by history. The Kurds are much ahead than all other freedom movements in the area, as they are backed by oil wealth from the region under their control. The Kurds are also divided into three parts: one part with Syria, the second part with Turkey and the third part with Iraq .
The Government of India by raising the issue of Baluchistan has thus created a new dimension of propaganda warfare with pakistan as answer to its proxy war through non-state actors.
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