The Residual effects of nuclear blasts
Zareen Baloch
The Balochistan Post
Life which is just a word of four alphabets, each has its different meaning and importance for every individual. Some people live it like an experiment, some live to create their meanings, some live for others to instruct them or learn from others as well, some people live it like that they have been never known about what they are going to accomplish. I always get confused about this non-stop life, what does it mean. Actually, where different communities of people converge at a single platform having a single demand but still for them the life have it’s own different meaning.
I have found that actually a life where nothing matters but happiness, sometimes to see our beloved ones enjoying the health and wealth, but as the journey of life doesn’t mean an unidirectional track which only ends at the station of death but have a lot of turns where every turn changes the meaning of life. “Observers are the beginner of new era”, they changed the theories and concepts and they are still doing, although many among us are observing but not every one trying to bring a change, it depends upon the direction, duration, and limitations of our thoughts that can become fruitful. Until we don’t observe the life, we are unable to understand its meaning. As I have been observing life around me, i have found various strangers, moving with me on a same track to trace the life but i have been observing a different life in Balochistan where those people who are surrounded by a deep sea under the shadow of development internationally but for them the meaning of life remains only to search a drop of water. The rich and wealthy land which has a trillion worth of natural resources nonetheless it’s owners are begging for a single drop of water, deprived of the jobs, the best quality education systems and suffering from hundred types of diseases but haven’t any facility of hospital which could treat the diseases like Leukemias, Skin cancers, hepatitis, lung cancers etc.
As i was talking about the life which is made up of single basic unit a “Cell”. Which we can’t observe with our naked eyes but according to scientific point of views it has further tiny structures, we called them the organelles; one of which is the Nucleus, a very important structure within the cell containing the genetic material called DNA. it is somehow strange for us that a single DNA which if correctly formed can generate a new cell by which a new generation will be formed but if there occurs a single miscoding/mismatch then the newly formed cell will be abnormal and an entire generation will suffer from the different kinds of genetic abnormalities. Yes, i am talking about the lives in nuclear residual affected “Chaaghi”, where the pregnant women abort suddenly, if they don’t then her child would suffer from the diseases like skin cancers and many others abnormalities as I mentioned above Balochistan has a trillion worth of natural resourceful asset including the district Chaaghi which is well familiar because of it’s most significant projects like Metallurgical Saindak Copper/Gold Project and Reko Diq Copper/Gold Project.
These diseases are not natural but have been imposed on the heart of this land when the nuclear tests were conducted on 28 May 1998 at the mountainous range of Raskoh Chaagi. Till today the disastrous emitting radiations and residuals are destroying thousands of the lives and an entire upcoming generation.
I just wanted to congratulate the nuclear possessing countries that have succeeded to diminish a generation of a nation. They did an excellent experiment on the people who were living a normal life like other human beings but every normal thing got finished immediately and we stamped here every single death a natural death which couldn’t be. So I can proudly say today that the people from Balochistan having a life full of luxurious where the genetic disorders like cancers, congenital anomalies, autoimmune diseases with increasing frequency brought more glimpses of beautification and today Gwadar is seeking drinking water, Chaagi is seeking treatment, actually we can observe the only thing to find a normal life like other nations.
The nuclear experiments are not just enough for Chaagi that the state has started assembling nuclear stockpiles fearlessly in the mountains of another district from Balochisatn known as Khuzdar, which obligated people to run towards nonfunctional hospitals, where the flu couldn’t be treated and due to these experimental blasts and storing of nuclear arsenals, the diseases like thalassemia which is genetic on it’s origin has been arising in those families who were unfamiliar of such a disease with clear history.
Another amazing thing is that a lady has came to the hospital with a rare disease which amazed the doctors too. She was From Zehri Khuzdar, an area of ex-chief minister Balochistan SanaUllah zehri. But what is media still waiting for? And what the researchers and doctors are waiting for? It seems another disastrous loss of a generation but the world must have to think about an intervention which can reduce the mortalities rates. We are sure If any research or screening is carried out then many rare diseases would found to be co-related with these lethal radiations. So which type of conclusion we have got about life in Balochistan where every unit of life is being hit, where the life is encaged under the dirty war.
Now the question remains for the global health care centres, Human Rights organisations and other International Communities that whether the global goals of health have been achieved here in Balochistan?
let’s remind the powers today that Balochistan is not a testing laboratory, let the people live their lives calmly and not decide their fates with the fatal residuals of radiations.