– by Nadeem F. Paracha
Furry Factoid #5: We have gallons and gallons of oil and tons and tons of coal and gas in the grounds of Balochistan. We can become a rich country but only if the Baloch people stop their occupation of Balochistan.
The Pakistani state and forces have been fighting a bloody war with the occupiers of one of the richest provinces of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan: Balochistan.
This province whose grounds are rumbling with natural wealth and resources has been under the yoke and occupation of the Baloch people.
Some might ask who else this province would be under if not the Baloch people. That’s a valid point. But then do mountains, deserts or cactus have a language or ethnicity? Do oil, coal or gas? No, they don’t. But they do have a religion.
If there can be an ‘Islamic bomb,’ why can’t there be an Islamic coal mine, or an Islamic oil rig or an Islamic gas pipeline, aye? And anything Islamic must have something to do with Pakistan, right? Right.
Thus, what does this brilliant logic make the Baloch people? It makes them invaders and occupiers!
Once they are driven out, we will drive in and become a rich country – a new Saudi Arabia! *goose bumps* …
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