Documentary highlights Baloch grievances
Daily Times, September 15, 2006
ISLAMABAD: Contrary to government claims, the sense of political and economic deprivation in Balochistan is deep, and Baloch nationalist leaders are enjoying wide public support in the province.
This is evident from Baloch interviews in a documentary on the province, ‘Negotiating at Gunpoint’, which was screened by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) and People’s Rights Movement (PRM) on Monday.
The Balochistan Solidarity Front (BSF) — a coalition of political workers, intellectuals and ordinary citizens – prepared the documentary based on footage gathered by a BSF delegation in 2005. The footage includes an interview with Akbar Bugti, other nationalist politicians, political activists and ordinary Baloch. Asha Amirali, one of the members of the BSF delegation, briefed people attending the screening on the situation in Balochistan.
Most people attending the screening said the government had not handled the Balochistan situation properly. They said that instead of introducing concrete economic and political policies, the government had launched a military operation. Some of them accused the military of mishandling the situation. Expressing their concern over the situation in Balochistan, they said that the crisis in the province needed to be resolved politically and democratically. staff report
3 comments:
Was this documentary screened in Pakistan? Was it shown outside of Balochistan? If so, this is fantastic. In my previous posts I have complained bitterly about Pakistani 'activists' playing to the western sensibilities rather than doing the hard work of convincing their fellow countrymen. If this documentary was made to show contemporary Balochistan to other Pakistanis...I applaud them.
Is this documentary available on internet?
No, but you can contact www.sdpi.org to get it.
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