What is the real problem in Balochistan(a province in Pakistan)?

Answer 1

A fresh wave of insurgency in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province has set off ripples all over the country with senior federal government officials claiming to have taken over control of mountains which served as hideouts for the insurgents.

The disturbances erupted early this month in oil and gas rich Kohlu region, 200 kilometres east of provincial capital Quetta, after central government announced plans to install the necessary infrastructure there for exploration of oil and gas reserves.

The so-called Baloch nationalists, who accuse the government of unjust exploitation of the provinces' natural resources, carried out rocket attacks on government installations, forcing the government to launch a limited military action to neutralize the attacks.

This is for the second time that insurgents mounted anti-government operations in Balochistan.

Early this year, they had targeted natural gas installations in Sui town providing gas to all of Pakistan as well as other government buildings, including railway tracks in Balochistan.

A decision by President General Pervez Musharraf to establish some army cantonments in Balochistan to 'help improve law and order' has also infuriated the Balochis, who see the move as an attempt to consolidate the military's stronghold in the province, bordering Iran and Afghanistan.

About 1,100 people were murdered in different parts of the province between 2002-04, according to an official report prepared by the provincial police chief.

As many as 771 rockets attacks on civil and military installations in Balochistan have killed 15 and wounded 50 people in two years (2002-2004).

A total of 650 rocket attacks occurred in 2004 alone. More than 80 people had been killed and nearly 200 wounded in various incidents of violence, blamed on the nationalists, in 2005.

'The government will not tolerate lawlessness and deal with the insurgents with an iron hand,' Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said in Islamabad.

However, the country's mainstream opposition grouping, the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD), rejected Aziz's reference to Baloch tribes as insurgents and announced plans to convene an all parties conference to discuss the volatile situation in the province.

'The ongoing military operation in Balochistan is detrimental to the country's sovereignty and existence,' secretary general ARD Zafar Iqbal Jhagra told reporters in Islamabad.

Jhagra said the government, instead of using coercive measures, should address the legitimate grievances of Balochistan, the least developed but largest province.

The provincial legislature in the country's Northwestern Frontier Province (NWFP) also approved a resolution Saturday criticizing the military action in Balochistan and calling for a negotiated settlement of the issue.

Meanwhile, Pakistan's home secretary has claimed that the security forces have taken over control of mountainous regions around Kohlu from where the insurgents used to launch rocket attacks.

However, he denied a full-fledged military operation was going on in the area, saying that security forces conducted operations in designated areas to arrest the insurgents.

'Our forces are now raiding suspected hideouts to track down the miscreants, who escaped Kohlu mountains during the operation,' Syed Kamal Shah said in Islamabad.

Hundreds of people also took to the streets in Quetta Friday to protest the ongoing military operation in Kohlu.

Answer 2

I'm not sure what you are asking. All areas have many problems. You need to be more specific.

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Answer 3

they are unhappy with pakistan and want to rejoin India