Karima Baloch, student leader posts Rakhi message for PM Modi from Balochistan

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has backed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reference to Balochistan in his Independence Day saying he “welcomes and appreciates” the remarks on the right of the Baloch people to enjoy a violence-free life. “Chief Minister Zehri said the demonstrations and rallies were evidence that Balochistan’s people did not like what Modi had said about rights violations in the province”.

Asserting that the Prime Minister had been thanked by these people for flagging their cause at the all-party meeting, he added that the former was sufficiently moved by their gratitude massages. I would like to say that we consider you as our brother.

Pakistan “recognises no red lines in its own diplomacy”, said MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup.

Prime Minister Modi, for the first time, raised the Balochistan and PoK issues in his Independence Day address this year. People of a distant land I haven’t even seen….

Participants, it said, stressed that they were and will remain Pakistanis and that they were proud of their nationality.

The reference comes a few days after the Prime Minister vowed to take up atrocities by the Pakistani government in these three areas on the global stage, when he spoke to an all-party delegation about the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, according to The Hindu. PM Modi cunningly opted for tit-for-tat tactics against Pakistan by raking up Balochistan issue in her I-Day speech to highlight the hypocrisy of the neighbouring country. “This is an amateur foreign policy”, he added.

He further said, “the visionary Congress leadership should exhibit some patient as PM’s Balochistan card would prove to be the gamechanger vis a vis Pakistan”.

“Congress has been consistent on the stand that Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) is under illegal occupation of Pakistan”, he added.