Baloch pro-independence leader and Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) chief Dr Allah Nazar Baloch has said Kashmiri and Pashtun resistance could “change the course of history” if it stands with the Baloch national struggle at what he described as a decisive moment for oppressed nations.
In a statement, Dr Allah Nazar said the “Punjabi state” had reached the final stage of its political lifespan, adding that the day was not far when Punjab would become a besieged and landlocked region.
“As a Baloch national soldier, on the front of resistance, I am ready to welcome Kashmiris and Pashtuns on behalf of the Baloch nation with an open heart and warmth,” he said.
He said that if Kashmiri and Pashtun nations decided to stand with the Baloch national movement at what he called an important and decisive moment in history, “we can cover the distance of decades in years.”
Dr Allah Nazar said the Baloch, Sindhi, Pashtun and Kashmiri nations had faced oppression, exploitation and war crimes for 77 years, accusing Pakistan of functioning through what he described as “Punjabi colonialism.”
If nations subjected to that system made a historic decision to resist together, he said, Pakistan would “shrink and be limited to merely a landlocked Punjab.”
He said history was calling on oppressed nations to decide their own future, adding that Pashtuns and Kashmiris would not find themselves alone if they chose the path of resistance and freedom.
“They will find the Baloch standing shoulder to shoulder with them on every front, including politics, diplomacy and resistance,” he said.
“In light of history, I believe that when the resistance and freedom movements of different nations unite against a common enemy, they change the course of history,” he added.
‘A state of contradictions’
Dr Allah Nazar described Pakistan as a military, occupying and expansionist state established on the lands of oppressed nations, saying its structure was “an ugly stain on the face of history and a collection of contradictions.”
He said such states carry the seeds of collapse within their own existence and reach their end through the consciousness and national resistance of oppressed nations.
Pakistan, he said, had now come close to that end.
The BLF chief said the national contradictions of the Baloch, Pashtun and Sindhi peoples had already emerged and taken the form of movements, while the Kashmiri question had now also become prominent.
He said that after decades of “attractive slogans” and state narratives, it had become clear that “Kashmir was Pakistan’s colony.”
According to Dr Allah Nazar, Kashmiri youth and intellectuals had now recognised that Pakistan viewed Kashmir mainly through its strategic and resource value, including the flow of water in the five rivers and its mountains as natural defensive positions against India.
He said Kashmiri political consciousness had exposed Pakistan’s “deception, fraud and attractive slogans” and gathered around its national question in light of history and objective realities.
“This can become not only a means of survival and liberation for Kashmiris, but also an important arm of the front of other oppressed peoples against Pakistani oppression,” he said.
Dr Allah Nazar said Kashmiris had full authority to decide their national future, but added that the time had come for them to take direct action and move towards what he called the “highway of freedom” from Pakistan.
‘Hard state’ narrative
The BLF leader also criticised Pakistan’s use of the term “hard state,” saying the slogan had been exposed by the Kashmiri struggle.
He said the policy had first been used to crush the Baloch national movement, but was now being directed at Kashmiris, whom Pakistan had long described as its “jugular vein.”
After the treatment of Kashmiris as enemies, he said, any remaining illusion among oppressed peoples about Pakistan was equivalent to “embracing one’s national death.”
Dr Allah Nazar said the use of the term “hard state” showed that Pakistan was established through oppression and force on the national lands of oppressed nations, adding that such language was being used to frighten them.
Viewed in the context of Baloch, Sindhi and Pashtun resistance, followed by Kashmiri resistance, he said Pakistan’s use of the term amounted to an admission that its current structure could not survive.
“The use of the term ‘hard state’ is essentially Pakistan’s admission that its survival with the current structure is impossible,” he said, describing it as the “initial declaration” of Pakistan’s defeat.
The statement said the term was not merely a political or military slogan, but reflected what it described as state conduct based on “the genocide of oppressed nations” and brutality against them.
It said Pakistan’s “hard state” narrative was an admission that the Baloch national war of liberation had entered a new phase, in which signs of Balochistan’s freedom were becoming visible.
Dr Allah Nazar said Pakistan had become a military state under a religious cover because it feared the logical outcome of national contradictions, but added that the Pakistani establishment still considered the current military repression and what he called the genocide of oppressed peoples insufficient.
That, he said, was why the “occupying state” was emphasising the “hard state” narrative and signalling what he described as a further increase in brutality.
But the Pakistani establishment and military, he said, had failed to understand that avoiding national contradictions instead of resolving them, and attempting to crush national movements through military force, had already shaken the state’s existence and foundations.