Balochistan is slowly but gradually coming into focus on the national defense agenda of the United States as U.S. relations with Pakistan deteriorate by the day.
"An independent Baluchistan would, in fact, solve many of the region’s most intractable problems overnight. It would create a territorial buffer between rogue states Iran and Pakistan.," writes U.S. defense strategist M. Chris Mason, senior fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies in Washington DC.
What makes Mason's observations very crucial is that he has recently returned from the Pakistan-Afghanistan borders and like C.I.A. chief Gen. David H. Petraeus knows about the ties of the infamous Inter-Services Intelligence with the Taliban like the back of his hand.
"It would provide a transportation and pipeline corridor for Afghanistan and Central Asia to the impressive but underutilized new port at Gwadar. It would solve all of NATO’s logistical problems in Afghanistan, allow us to root the Taliban out of the former province and provide greater access to Waziristan, to subdue our enemies there. And it would contain the rogue nuclear state of Pakistan and its A.Q. Khan network of nuclear proliferation-for-profit on three landward sides, " Mason wrote in an article in the Globe and Mail Wednesday.
Early this year, one of the most senior U.S. academics Selig S. Harrison, came out openly in favor of the liberation of Balochistan at a meeting at the premier United States Institute for Peace .
"The way to put the Pakistani genie back in the bottle and cork it is to help the Baluchis go the way of the Bangladeshis in achieving their dream of freedom from tyranny, corruption and murder at the hands of the diseased Pakistani military state," Mason argues in his article.
The DC-based American Friends of Balochistan hailed Mason's analysis and said freedom for Balochistan offers a longterm solution to the bleeding wounds of Afghanistan.
There has been an increased interest in Balochi culture, language and politics in the U.S. in recent years.
Source: http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy-in-baltimore/american-defense
What makes Mason's observations very crucial is that he has recently returned from the Pakistan-Afghanistan borders and like C.I.A. chief Gen. David H. Petraeus knows about the ties of the infamous Inter-Services Intelligence with the Taliban like the back of his hand.
"It would provide a transportation and pipeline corridor for Afghanistan and Central Asia to the impressive but underutilized new port at Gwadar. It would solve all of NATO’s logistical problems in Afghanistan, allow us to root the Taliban out of the former province and provide greater access to Waziristan, to subdue our enemies there. And it would contain the rogue nuclear state of Pakistan and its A.Q. Khan network of nuclear proliferation-for-profit on three landward sides, " Mason wrote in an article in the Globe and Mail Wednesday.
Early this year, one of the most senior U.S. academics Selig S. Harrison, came out openly in favor of the liberation of Balochistan at a meeting at the premier United States Institute for Peace .
"The way to put the Pakistani genie back in the bottle and cork it is to help the Baluchis go the way of the Bangladeshis in achieving their dream of freedom from tyranny, corruption and murder at the hands of the diseased Pakistani military state," Mason argues in his article.
The DC-based American Friends of Balochistan hailed Mason's analysis and said freedom for Balochistan offers a longterm solution to the bleeding wounds of Afghanistan.
There has been an increased interest in Balochi culture, language and politics in the U.S. in recent years.
Source: http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy-in-baltimore/american-defense
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