Martyr Raza Jahangeer aka Shay Mureed
Author: Shayan Baloch
The Balochistan Post
Che Guevara played a massive role in the struggle of Cuban revolution that was led by Fidel Castro. He was not known to the public and world in parallel with his companion Fidel Castro, all the concentrations and appreciations were for the man who altered the lives and history of the Cuban people by ousting the cruel rule of the dictators.
At the time of the struggle and after accomplishing the objective of achieving a state where the public concerns was of utmost importance has gained much effective turns at the history of images that were captured. But Che Guevara at the time of his existence couldn’t get any global appreciation. In spite of this his steadfastness could not be affected and he continuously followed his predetermined goals of making history for the world occupied nations. In mid 1950s, Che became a companion of Fidel Castro, a vigorous opponent of Cuban dictator, Batista, and both led a two-year guerrilla war in the jungles of the Cuba against Batista’s army. Eventually, in 1959, they were able to topple the dictators and impose communist rule in Cuba.
Ch Guevara was a leading member of Castro’s revolutionary regime until in 1965, when he silently left Cuba to stimulus similar revolutions elsewhere in the world. He fought alongside communist rebels in Central Africa, and then, in 1967, arrived in Bolivia to launch an insurgency. He was captured by CIA backed by Bolivian forces and executed. Che’s last words were addressed to the soldier who had been sent to execute him. He reportedly told the soldier: “I know you’ve come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”
After his execution the once captured images of Che by a photographer became viral worldly and he was famously known as a fighter whose commitments instigated many people to learn that how tyrannies must be responded. He was such a committed man and personality who was always determined to bring change where injustice prevailed and he never displayed himself to be known as a famous man but he was keen to struggle until his last breat. In consequences, after all he got the name of a revolutionary personality who the entire globe knows and follows.
Raza Jahangeer Aka Shay Mureed, a political activist, committed and sincere individual, was one of the followers of Che’s footsteps and conscience, pursued a similar way for the destitute and illegally occupied nation known as Baloch. Raza always emphasized upon the ways of implementation of change in our practical lives, similar to Che Guevara, who also concentrated on bringing change rather than thinking for self.
As far as the history of occupation of Balochistan is concerned, it connects the most drastic withdrawn of the British imperialism. At the time of leaving the sub-continent, Balochistan was declared a free state on 11 august 1947 and this status was also initially accepted by but due to the leftover conspiracies under the leadership of Ali Jinnah, Balochistan (Kalat Kalat) was forcibly annexed with Paksitan at the might of gun. However, it was portrayed to the world that Kalat had annexed on its own desire, which was totally fabricated.
Raza Jahangeer aka Shay Mureed, was born on 1 December 1987 in a backward area of Balochistan, known as Awaran. From the adolescent. he was a keen learner and wanted to be a symbol for his people. While proceeding his educational carrier he felt that life should be passed in a way that assists others and do such massive things that make him immortal in the history. Consequently, with the passage of time he came to know about the word “revolution”, which enabled him to read about the history of Baloch and Balochistan. It was the reason behind this sentiment that he joined BSO. He a committed and well-mannered person.
At the time of crackdown against BSO-Azad, all of the members trembled and kept a distance from political activities but Raza’s commitment never weakened and he worked day and night to strengthen the structure of BSO. He wanted to bring all the students under the platform of BSO, for whichthousands of Baloch had given their precious lives.
Moreover, Raza worked all the time to raise awareness among students about the reality and truth, which eventually made him a dynamic student leader. He was once caught and put behind the bars for speaking aggressively during a protest in Khuzdar against the murder of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti. He was jailed for more than three months.
He was much focused personality and always used to say in his lectures that: “A revolution is a drastic and sudden change which is instigated or propagated by a revolutionary, revolutionaries, are the people who take up the cause of bringing about change in an existing system. A revolutionary is generally the one person who decides that he or she has had enough of the supposed injustice enforced by a system and decides to directly or indirectly; take steps to facilitate the removal of the unjust system”.
However, his philosophy of bringing a change and breaking down the firm occupation of Pakistan was strongly engrossed and attempted a lot in this spectrum which made him one of the leaders, who sacrificed his entire life for upcoming generations of Baloch nation.
Raza Jahangeer was a true lover of books, he was an effective learner of history, literature, international relations etc. Raza Jahangeer was a student of International Relations in University of Balochistan. Raza Jahangeer believed in political struggle and he was a peaceful activist of BSO-Azad. Raza’s political career as a leader initiated when he became the zonal president of Awaran, later he became a central cabinet member at the council session of BSO-Azad in 2008.
This added a glamorous charm in the personality of Shay Mureed. which he utilized to a great extent to approach students towards the realities and practical life. He was an enthusiastic activist who always seemed to be active at organizational affairs. He sacrificed his personal life for a long-lasting destination of restoring the independent status of Baloch motherland.
One day I accidentally met Prof. Saba Dashtayri at the premises of the University of Balochistan, besides him there was a young man sitting and speaking in a gracious accent and well-behaved manner, while discussing with Prof. Saba Dashtayri on a topic. I soon became inspired of his effective gestures, he was a man who seemed much interested and keen in the moment, discussing with a person who today is known as a ceaseless candle for the Baloch. The man was Shay Mureed who I was seeing for the first time. It was the time perhaps when he was a student at the Polytechnic College, Quetta.
Further on, gradually we became acquaintances. Anywhere, I came across to meet him I found him an attractive personality and had never found him wasting a second. He was always a task oriented activist and punctual student.
No one could ever see him without books, he was a robust learner of books, so that while knowing the exactness of the Balochistan’s occupation, Shay Mureed upon his maturity initiated to learn about the world and globally emerged revolutions such as, the French revolution, Cuban, Russian, Algiers, African radicalism, Glorious Revolution, Argentine Revolution, Mexican Revolution, The Mau Mau Uprising, White Revolution, The Zanzibar Revolution and many others, and he became known to the most influential revolutionaries, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Vladimir Lenin, Kim Il-sung,( North Korea), Leon Trotsky( Ukraine), Emiliano Zapata Salazar(Mexico), B.R Ahmedkar (India), Pol Pot(Cambodian), Bhagat Singh(Indian),Nelson Mandela(South Africa) etc.
These were the factors that made Raza Jahangeer a true lover of Balochistan and enlisted him among the legends. He became famous as Shay Mureed. In thousands of other Baloch, who dedicated their entire life for a cause of a brighter future, there also the name of Raza Jahangeer.
Raza was an informative activist who was having a great apprehension towards world and its history. Raza Jahangeer was not only confined to Baloch students under the structure of BSO-Azad, but I found him as a friend, with whom you could debate and he was fond to argue upon the issues and activities of the nationalist parties. I once saw him discussing with another great nationalist politician General Secretary of BNM martyr Dr.Manan Baloch on a issue/ Dr.Manan was appreciating the ways that BSO-Azad took, which aimed at politicizing the students and acknowledging them fully about the modifications of policies that take place by the interval of time globally.
If I set and start defining all the characters that Raza Jahangeer displayed, I may jot down a whole book.
Raza Jahangeer at the time of his martyrdom alongside with Imdad Bujjar was on an organizational trip to Kech, where the personnel of Pakistani Intelligence Agency accompanied by local agents and Frontier Corps personnel attacked the house. Both Raza Jahangeer and his friend Imdad Bujjar were cowardly murdered in this attack on 14 August, 2013.
However, this couldn’t suppress the companions of Raza Jahangeer’s caravan. In fact, if anything, it has strengthened bonds of unity among his followers, and this bond will exist till Baloch attain a status of a free state.