๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ, ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐๐ค ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ ๐ซ๐ข ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐๐ง ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ง ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ญ ๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ฒ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐๐ค๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ข ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐จ๐๐ก ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ, ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐๐.
๐๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ง ๐๐๐ฅ๐จ๐๐ก, ๐๐ฉ๐จ๐ค๐๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐จ๐๐ก ๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ณ๐๐
On the evening of 28 August, 2014 Pakistani state sponsored armed men, commonly known as death squads and religious extremists targeted a religious worship site of Zigri sect (Zikri Community ) in Ziarat e Dann, Awaran. Armed men riding on two motorcycles targeted the Zigrana (Zikir khana) and started firing indiscriminately on the people engaged in ritual worship, seven people were killed while many were injured. Among them was Miyya Bakhtyar, father of former Secretary General of BSO Azad, Martyr Raza Jahangeer. Miyyah Bakhtyar was martyred on the spot along other five persons. One of the attackers was identified as Pakistanโs Military Intelligence officer, Usman. The attackers flew from the area, but the locals saw them entering the nearby Pakistan army camp.
This was somehow an attack on secular Baloch society, an attempt to divide the population and create a civil conflict among the Baloch people, and secondly it was an attempt to harass, threaten and target the families of Baloch political workers. Before this brutal attack, pamphlets were thrown in various areas of Awaran and Kech, threatening the Zigri community. And some other incidents also occurred in those regions where people were targeted in such brutal assaults. These were attempts to counter the Baloch liberation struggle in religious form.
Since Pakistanโs occupation of Balochistan, like other colonial states, has always tried to use colonial tactics on Baloch nation, one of those is religious extremism. Occupying Pakistani state has used the religion card against Baloch people, trying to inflict extremists thoughts to create a chaos among Baloch masses to led them into a civil conflict. Pakistani state sponsored various political religious extremists groups in Mastung, Kech, Gwadar, Awaran, Panjgur, to target the civilians from other sects of Islam. One of the prime target of those extremists has been the Zigri sect of Islam. Their rituals sites, pilgrimages and people have been targeted in brutal assaults. Many people from Awaran, Mashkay and Kech have been targeted. While in Mastung, people from various other sects have also been targeted.
These targets were the attempts to destroy and disrupt the Baloch code of conduct and unity among them. And secondly to counter the Baloch liberation struggle through its colonial tactics. Some organised negative propaganda has also been spread against Baloch leaders to disrupt the support from Baloch masses. But fortunately, the tyrant Pakistani state has been failed in its criminal attempts. Baloch nation has been aware of these colonial tactics through the continuous political education and mobilisation by Baloch political organisations. Baloch society is a secular society, and has been living beside any religious, language, tribal and class differences under one banner of Baloch identity compromising of Balochiat. While Pakistani state has been sponsoring such religious extremists groups to destroy Baloch society, Baloch nation has rejected such tactics and resisted them in any form.
I pay tribute to the martyrs of Awaran incident along with other civilians, who were targeted by Pakistani state sponsored extremists. Their blood was shed in the liberation struggle against tyrant state. The unity of Baloch nation has defeated the tyrant state in its colonial tactics, and this unity among Baloch nation will lead us to an organised Baloch society.