Renowned Baloch human rights campaigner Mir Yar Baloch has accused ousted United States President Donald Trump of undermining international peace by contemplating delegating control over the trillions of dollars' worth of Balochistan's massive mineral resources to Pakistan. He argued that this would serve to empower only what he termed as a "terrorist nation."
In Mir's view, providing Pakistan unbridled access to Balochistan's vital minerals and rare earth mineral deposits would further fuel its extremist agenda. He warned that radical religious forces in Pakistan would soon seek to "impose their brand of 'Sharia' even in the US itself.
Mir referred to Europe and other areas as proof of this pattern, asserting that "every trail of terrorism and extremism invariably leads back to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)."
His comments came in response to a remark made by Pakistan's military chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, who had recently informed Jung News: "Pakistan has a treasure of rare earth, with this treasure, Pakistan's debt burden will also decrease and Pakistan will soon be among the wealthiest societies."
Reacting to this, Mir took to X, reminding the global world that Balochistan's mineral resources do not belong to Pakistan but to the Baloch nation: "The sixty million of Balochistan once again want to remind Pakistan and the international community that the mineral wealth available in Republic of Balochistan does not belong to an artificial state of Pakistan that has lasted for just seventy-seven years, but to the Baloch nation, whose history and presence go back more than ten thousand years on the world map."
Condemning Munir, Mir emphasized that Balochistan's resources belong rightfully to its people, not to the Pakistani government or army that took control of the province forcibly. Announcing Balochistan as a "free nation," he stated that any attempt at "illegally appropriating" another nation's natural resources is a grave violation of international law.
He also accused Pakistan's ruling class of time and again offering Balochistan's resources as collateral to the IMF, the World Bank, and other financial institutions in order to receive loans from them, while presenting them as those of Pakistan falsely. He re-emphasized that the Baloch nation has always requested such institutions not to lend money to Pakistan on this account.
Coming back to Munir, Mir claimed the army chief, who he compared with terrorists around the world like Osama bin Laden, even made a claim that Pakistan was involved in putting Trump's name forward for the Nobel Peace Prize.
In Mir's opinion, no American President warrants the honor unless the U.S. officially declares Pakistan a terrorist nation and its military leadership is made to answer for the deaths of 5,000 American soldiers in Afghanistan since 9/11, a calamity he alleged was masterminded by ISI generals.
He reminded that the ISI had provided protection to Osama bin Laden for almost a decade despite his involvement in global terrorism, including the 9/11 attacks. He also blamed the spy agency for helping to kill 30 million Bengalis in 1971, Palestinians being massacred in Jordan in the same year, as well as cruelties in Afghanistan and Balochistan.
Mir opined that if Trump were ever to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, then Pakistan's military establishment must not support this. Real honor, he added, would be bestowed on him by the people of Balochistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and India—countries which have suffered at the hands of Pakistan's state terror, military incursions, and ethnic cleansing.
"Receiving a Nobel Peace Prize from a terrorist, or on behalf of a terrorist state, would be no different than receiving something from a terrorist itself. Authentic peace cannot be legitimized by the perpetrators of violence," Mir averred.
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