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December 22, 2009
BALUCHISTAN’S
SOVEREIGNTY & THE EMERGING EMPIRE – II
by Ahmad Marri
“To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp
under false titles, they call empire; and where they make
a desert, they call it peace”
(Publius Tacitus)
In my preceding article, Baluchistan’s Sovereignty & the
Emerging Empire Part-I, I intended to determine the
basic fundamental structure of the emerging empire within
the 21st century, and its relevance to the vast rich land
of Balochistan. To begin with, one should not submerge
him/herself in fog in-order to comprehend the instinct
of the emerging empire. Empire is plighted by simple facts:
there is world order. It will not only manage a territory
of a particular organism, but its tenants – seeking
to rile directly over human nature and its rightful birth
ownership. This form of empire wields with enormous power
of destruction, bloodbath and repression. Whereas, the
concept of empire, that has been and will be in the future
- portrayed as dedicated peace. In other words, a pure
sense of deception will empower the sovereignty and the
characteristics of any particular nation-state.
The critical task that is meant to be argued here is not
only to ‘hold the lines’ of this dominant feature
of devastation. The process of re-defining and re-organizing
the tentacles of the emerging world power towards new ends
by means of innovation and compelling forces are aspects
of great importance. Such constructive forces of the multitude
that endures empire are potentially equal to the task of
autonomously formulating a counter-empire. Few political
organizations of global exchanges contesting to undermine
the powerful empire in-general already exist – seeking
to enhance the voice for liberty through the jungle of ‘autocracy’ and ‘totalitarianism.’ Such
new struggles have already began to surface in the existing
world order, coming forth from various democratic, republic
and oppressed nations – constituting a unique puissance,
which will one day bypass the iron fist of the oppressive
empire beyond its own intellection.
The global situation is diversifying at a solid pace and
without a doubt Balochistan stands mid-centre. Recently,
I had attended a briefing on Indian Sub-continents’ political
and security risk analysis. The guest speaker presiding consultants,
Dr Robert Bradnock a senior research fellow at Kings College
London spoke regarding a number of political and security
related issues in South Asia. To my surprise, the expert
mentioned Baluchistan’s national movement and its correlation
with India. He was very passive on this matter - stating
that it is not entirely in India’s interest to witness
a destabilise Pakistan. What I found most interesting is
to hear about the volatile region from a passive debater.
It provided me with a sense of belief that maybe things are
not what they seem to be. I could be terribly wrong though.
It provoked me to ask myself queries that I never had to
dispute with. Nevertheless, my belief and inner-conscious
regarding the emerging empire and its repercussions on sovereign
states and on polity institutions were and are very much
standing firm. As Senior Bush said in 1992, “it
is not only our state that is at stake, but an idea, a New
World Order.” A single non-polar government that
is meant to govern the entire globe, not by the hands of
the sole influential super power that we were exposed too,
antecedent to the contemporary times which is pushing third
world nations to question themselves over unprecedented issues.
The gradual systematic approach which is amusing the global
village toward a game-plan with magnificent state of the
art military, economical and the most lethal, media might.
A band of creatures that will imply intense oppression on
free nations, whom by their mindset have the [audacity] to
speak of their rights, customs and demand their unification
amongst states whom they could ideally correlate with.
Recently, there are various debates that are surfacing within
the resistance movement of oppression itself. The political
jurisdiction of Balochistan including both, nationalist and
pro-Pakistani parties are seemingly dwelling on a route of
bewilderment. I will not weary my energy by elaborating the
political governing faction in Balochistan that are being
dictated by elements whom are mindful of their atrocities.
What goes around comes around, and that is precisely what
the governing class in Pakistan is currently undergoing.
Suicide bombings have just become a minor part of intense
catastrophes the state is confronting. Injustice and mayhem
which were implied on Baluchistan’s general patriot
public have lead to none relating repercussions in the form
of economical and political downturn within the so called
Islamic State of Pakistan. Nevertheless, what hurts the most
in the volatile environment is the suffocation of the unprivileged
class, whom are being targeted the most. Maybe that is why
the civil factors are raising their voice and illuminating
their thoughts and voice over the tragedies and resentment
applied on the Baluch people. The question remains, is it
to late to do so! Well, all I know is that Baluchi are being
picked and targeted like cattle of sheep’s constantly
being eagle eyed by a group of hyenas.
Time is ripe and so are international, regional and sub-regional
impressions. A column in the British based Guardian newspaper
by two feature writers, Jon Henley and Ed Pilkington reported
that few countries protect the right of workers in order
to affiliate themselves to a trade union, but in other dominant
states, union-busting is a lucrative business so that aggressive
union consultancies are increasingly at work. This example
is a productive statement to comprehend with the ‘divide
and rule’ strategy since ancient times to split and
pull apart the glory of identity. This is what is at stake
for Baluch and Balochistan! Stakeholders who can do a lot
for their people are also indulged in such tactics, but it
is ok! It is a cross border disease and has become very much
rare like many other elevated advances. One man wants to
believe in God, the other in Lucifer. One is an extremist
and those who lay their critics are moderates. On regional
Baluchi terms, one Baluch indicates one chief, the
other says in a different language, No, I am not referring
to this particular chief; I am speaking with reference to
my chief.
The deep presence of internal boycott amongst our own masses
has made it merely impossible to revive back into our self-
conscious. Amendments for tolerance and selfless are fundamental
rays, which will guide the people to their glory, yet with
further more constraint to follow. Within the extensive decades
of crises of the socialist, communist and liberal regimes,
a big quantum of critical thought, both in powerful states
and in the subordinated ones; re-composition of resistance
are indentified on the social and identity subjects. National
and regional groups that are often grounded as Michael Hardt
stated, the localization of struggles. Such dialectics are
often constructed in terms of ‘place-based’ movements.
Hertz and his co-worker Antonio Negri, both political theorists
also suggested that the contemporary class oppression is
the force within the intense globalization era holds the
potential of sparking social change of unprecedented dimension.
However, the central problem lies within the dichotomy between
global and local, local and sub-local and carries on implying
its mechanism within the mutual ethnic society. Empire may
have put an end to colonialism and imperialism in numerous
manner only by constructing its own relationship of [power]
based on exploitation of post colonialism which are in many
regards more destructive then those it destroyed.
Ahmad Marri
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