Ahmar Mustikhan, Baltimore Foreign Policy Examiner Balochistan in southwest Asia is losing both its political and intellectual capital in the backdrop of a bloody crackdown by Pakistan's security and intelligence services since early 2005, opening up the France-seized territory to anarchic, civil war-like situation.
In the last two years, at least two top leaders and nearly six highly educated young men have been granted asylum in Western Europe and United States.
These leaders and intellectuals are fleeing what the Amnesty International called kill-and-dump policy of Pakistan's security forces and intelligence services. As many as 5,000 political activists were disappeared by the Pakistanis in Balochistan since 2005 and more than 250 victims of enforced disappearances have been killed there since July 2010.
Top leaders who have escaped to safety are Hyrbyair Marri in London, U.K., Brahumdagh Bugti in Geneva, Switzerland. In addition, nearly six youths from Mekran, three of them writers and journalists, applied for asylum in the United States in the last two or so years.
http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy-in-baltimore/politicos-flee-balochistan?CID=examiner_alerts_article
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