Geneva cops foil ISI bid to spy on Baluch activist

AHMAR MUSTIKHAN

Police in Geneva stopped two suspicious characters for trying to spy on and take pictures of a senior Baluch representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council.

The two, who were trying to take snaps of Mehran Baluch, a younger brother of Baluch national hero Hyrbyair Marri, turned out to be Pakistani "diplomats" posted at Bern.

Police recovered documents and ID cards that showed the two were working for the Pakistani mission in Bern.

Anjuman Ittehad Marri, an organization struggling to defend the rights of the indigenous Baluch people and ousting Pakistani occupation troops from Baluchistan, has condemned the incident.

The two Pakistanis, who were most definitely agents of the infamous Inter Services Intelligence, were keeping a surveillance of the streets around the hotel were Baluch was staying.

This is not the first time Pakistani officials have tried to obstruct the work of Baluch, whose elder brother Nawabzada Bala'ach Marri was killed by the Pakistani military on November 20, 2007.

Two years ago two Pakistani officials gatecrashed into the compound of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, called Palais des Nations in a bid to stop Baluch from speaking at the world forum.

Pakistani authorities, notably the Inter Services Intelligence, have also tried to obstruct international traveling of Baluch by providing false information to intelligence set-ups of foreign nations.

In March 2009, the Pakistani embassy in Switzerland wrote a letter to the Swiss government that Baluch is a terrorist and should be prevented from coming to Geneva.

Interfaith International chairman Charles Graves conducted a probe and so did the Swiss authorities and dismissed the Pakistani charges as baseless, unfounded and contrary to facts.

The UN Human Rights Council informed the Baluch delegate that there were no charges against him and no one will be allowed to hinder his international outreach work for his occupied homeland.

After failing to officially obstruct Baluch's work, the Pakistani spooks are trying to make secret video footage of his moves.

"Such acts are against the Geneva Convention and international norms of conduct," the Anjuman Ittehad Marri said in a statement condemning the antics of the Pakistani spies. "Such vulgar actions can not stop the Baluch voice from being heard at international fora nor can they prevent the Baluch leaders from speaking the truth," the AIM said.

The organization said due to the tireless efforts of Baluch activists the Baluch national question is coming into international limelight and introduced to nations across the world, much to the chagrin of the illegitimate state of Pakistan and its various organs.

"Mehran Baluch and other international activists are representing the interests of the Baluch people in broad daylight, rather than in the shadows," the AIM representative said. "Pakistan is in a state of paranoia and these shameless antics and uncalled for actions of the Pakistani agents are inexcusable," the AIM said.
Pakistan fears exposure of its black deeds in Baluchistan and is using dirty tricks to prevent the Baluch story from being heard at international fora.

AIM said the Baluch people are confident the UN Human Rights Council would not heed to Pakistan's conspiracies against the Baluch.

It recalled that the British government under pressure from coup leader and dictator, General Pervez Musharraf, had arrested Hyrbyair Marri and his aide Faiz Baluch, but they were found not guilty by a London jury.

The Baluch are totally opposed to Pakistan's parasitic existence on the world map as their Texas-sized homeland was occupied against their wishes on March 27, 1948 – seven months after the British left India divided.

Baluch is a son of legendary national leader Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri, who has for more than three decades consistently maintained Pakistan must end its military occupation of Baluchistan..

[Original report appeared in the pro-independence Tawar newspaper: http://www.dailytawar.com/]

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