The Baluch people who use internet are still guessing who was the person responsible for a web fraud committed against them more than two years ago.
"If this poll is genuine then Hitler was Jew," well-known Baluch intellectual Usman Qazi commented on Facebook
The fraudulent web poll, conducted by Canadian-based Mirdora.com, was ostensibly aimed at finding out who is the most popular leader of Baluchistan in the Baluch diaspora and the results were mind-boggling.
The question asked in the poll was "If we held national elections, who would you select as your leader?"
One of the most highly respected Baluch nationalist leaders, Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri, who is credited for being the founder of the Baluch liberation ideology since its forced occupation of March 27, 1948, is shown to have got only 7.1 percent of votes. Likewise, another staunch Pakistan opponent Sardar Ataullah Mengal got only 7.1 percent votes.
Nawab Marri's son, Mir Balaach Marri, got 14.3 percent votes in the farcical web survey. Mir Balaach Marri was assassinated on Nov. 21, 2007. Another martyr, Ghulam Mohammed Baloch was shown with barely 1.4 percent votes.
Former chief minister of Baluchistan, Sardar Akhtar Mengal, who is a son of Sardar Ataullah Mengal bagged barely 4.3 percent votes.
An internationally well-known Baloch senator, Sanaullah Baloch, is said to have bagged 8.6 percent votes.
The Cardiff-based Khan of Kalat Suleman Daud got zero votes. Some sections of the Baluch consider Daud as the De Jure Ruler of Baluchistan, whose ancestors had ruled over the Baluch tribal confederacy for 35 generations as their chief.
However, a follower of the Khan of Kalat based in Jacksonville, Fla., Dr. Wahid Baloch a.k.a Dostaen Baloch of Panjgur stunningly emerged as the winner of the international popularity contest with 51.4 percent of the total votes.
When asked, Dostaen Baloch defended the survey as genuine.
The five-week polling that began on July 26 and ended August 31, 2007 saw as many 70 Baluch people all over the world cast their votes.
Names of two Baluch national heroes, Mir Hyrbyair Marri and Dr. Allah Nazar Baloch, were ommitted in the survey. However, a third national hero Nawab Brahumdagh Bugti, political heir to slain Baluch statesman Nawab Akbar Bugti is shown with only 5.7 percent votes.
Many Baluch leaders like Dr. Hayee Baloch, Mir Hasil Bizenjo, Dr. Malik Baloch, Mehran Baluch, and Noordin Mengal, among many others, were totally left out of the web poll.
Munir Mengal, a Paris-based Baluch activist who faced torture and who alleged former dictator Gen. Pervez Musharraf came to meet him while he was military captivity, also got zero votes.
Likewise, a well-known activist from Seistan-o-Baluchistan, now based in Stockholm, Nasir Boladai got zero votes.
The person that organized the poll was also likely behind the shadowy Government of Balochistan in exile that sprung up mysteriously a year earlier in spring 2006
At least two old wise men in the Baloch diaspora. Jumma Khan and Saeed Ameeri, saw through the fraud and had cautioned the Baloch nation accordingly.
Jumma Khan wrote in a yahoogroups.com posting:
"The question is whether the fighting Baloch forces are consulted or not? If yes. It would be
wonderful. And if not. Then who were those who have taken the initiativeof establishing GOB and what are the future plans? It is therefore requested that please do not take this great problem with sheer excitment but do take it seriously by consulting all active elements of Baloch nation inside and outside Balochistan."
According to Saeed Ameeri, the bogus GOB-in-exile was a brainchild of Canada-based computer genuis Malik Durrazai.
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