Any foreign intervention in Balochistan, including from Pakistan and the US, is unacceptable, Baloch fugitive leader Brahamdagh Bugti said on Friday.
Referring to the recently-held Balochistan Conference in Islamabad in an interview with BBC Urdu, Brahamdagh said time for arranging talks and conferences on the Balochistan issue had lapsed. The Baloch leader, who has applied for political asylum with the assurance that he would not support armed insurgency, said “if anybody wants to talk, recognising Balochistan, doors are open for negotiations”. To a query, he said several Baloch leaders had agreed on an independent Balochistan but there was no consensus among them. However, he said it was not necessary that there should be unity among the Baloch on the issue, adding that goal could also be achieved without it.
He said main reason behind the division between the Baloch leaders was the Pakistan Army and the ISI.
Brahamdagh said an independent Balochistan would only include Baloch populated areas, adding that Pashtoon majority areas would not be part of it.
He conceded that “right now, there is no solid support for our aim but lobbying goes on in the US, the UK and Russia”.
Brahamdagh claimed that the resolution by US lawmaker Dana Rohrabacher was not aimed at putting pressure on Islamabad.
