Karakites' Deprivation

(Abu Shahab, Karak)

For the first time we, Karakites, are sharing the feelings of Baluchs; thanks to the state run media that pictures Baluchs as traitors, agents of foreign spy agencies and people who want to pose serious threats to the federation of our dear mother land.

We were not aware of our Baluchs’ brothers in faith feelings and thinking, and were fully hypnotized by the state propaganda, had we were not bestowed with the large reserves of natural gas and oils here in Karak. How disturbing is the fact that we have been deprived of the wealth of the gas produced in our neighborhood which is being supplied to other areas of the country. And this is the reason that Baluchs can not be blamed for the protest; and after such a long protest if anti state elements and enemy agencies find their ways to enter their ranks is the thing that cannot be astonished of.

Why the state machinery is not hearing the voices of the masses. And how is that the state is not fulfilling its responsibility?

A welfare state is one which provides all the amenities of life in its hands to all its citizens with out any discrimination, without any protest or demand from the masses—tax payers. Can ours be called a welfare state in this regard?

If this is the policy of state to supply on demand and protest then how it demands loyalty and sacrifice from its citizens. Is Karak not in the territory of Pakistan?

The natural gas digging out from the soil of Karak is being supplied to other parts of the country but Karakites are deprived of this blessing of the Creator. Most of the population can not burn their hearths with this magic air. Some big villages and towns like Latamber, Surdag, Rahmat Abad, Takht-e-Nastratti, Ahmad Abad, Mandawa, Bahadur Khel and others are still waiting for gas though pipelines have been extended to them just to calm them from any protest, but for how long they can be deprived?

Being in the vicinity of Afghanistan, if enemy spies enter in the ranks of Khattaks, the residents of Karak, and are being misused by them who will be responsible? Who is bent upon making Baluchistan of our peaceful and peace loving Karak?

If natural gas is supplied for domestic use a lot of electricity can be saved for industrial purpose. But why should this be done?--If there comes self sufficiency in ‘power’ then who will get cooks-bake and commission from multi-national IPPs, who are bent upon making our exploitation by encouraging their western master to help keeping our corrupt strata in power.

How far this twenty percent stratum of our society will enjoy the resources of our dear mother land and the rest of the entity will only watch and cast its vote for them to keep them in power and run the state machinery??

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