QUETTA: Around 121 insurgent training camps were operating in Balochistan and 30 in Afghanistan, which are contributing to unrest in the province, Inspector-General (IG) Frontier Corps (FC) Major General Ubaidullah Khan told the media on Saturday.
Addressing a press conference in Quetta, Khan claimed that the camps are being operated by Harbiyar Marri, Brahamdag Bugti, Allah Nazar and Javed Mengal, and are running concerted campaigns to defame state institutions.
Brahamdagh Bugti is the leader of Balochistan Republican Party (BRP) and Harbiyar Marri of Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) – both are accused of fueling insurgency in the violence plagued province.
Khan added that if the government tries its hard, these camps can be eliminated.
The FC and other security agencies though too have been blamed for some of the violence in the province. The IG was summoned by the Supreme Court recently to explain the role of FC in the case of missing persons.
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every country has its own interests. indians along with other countries have better chance to destabilize Pakistan and we Pakiistanis are struggling to be survived. Our soft belly is Balochistan and their is Kashmir.If our struggle of survival is migraine, let it be.
@Batman: Yeah, cuz you are a right royal pain for the world - heard of what former Secretary Albright had said? international migraine. And all because of people like the one shown in pic.
@K B Kale: i think ur sleeping, open ur eyes, the people are talking about INDIAN interference in Pakistan s soil and no one likes these hard headed so-called separatists.
@Zaid Hamid: Bollywood movies are found in almost every home of Punjab, it means they are the agents of RAW. What a nonsense.
Obaid! You are doing great. Keep up the good work.
@omer the Indians are terrible students, never learn any lessons - look at them in 1965, 1971, Siachen, Kargil etc
@Batman: You want only bearded men and butchers to participate in these forums?
And when FC does take action against these camps, it is once again the flip-flop liberals who spread the propaganda that innocent people are being killed or missing persons is a result of state oppression. Due to lack of military action in Balochistan, we have this situation today.
@Batman: Do I make batman cry? Do you have to use your cape as a tissue? Could it be a conspiracy to inconvenience your Pakistani dry cleaners?
nice: the shoe is on the other foot ! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
@ V.C. Bhutani. Pakistan is not a Afghanistan. Our armed forces are capable of defending ourselves. If you try to intervene, we will teach you a lesson. You should remember that we shot down two of your planes within minutes of them entering our airspace in 1999. Also, I assure you that Indian Occupied Kashmir will also rise up against you if you do something that stupid.
IG FC should present these facts to the Chief Justice. And Pak authorities should take the matter up with the NATO and the Afghan authorities. Pak should tell NATO that this is happening under their supervision. My guess is that NATO and Karzai are using these terrorists as a bargaining chip so that Pak can be coerced into attacking N. Wazirstan. Pakistan is becoming a perfect scapegoat for the mess in Afghanistan. At the same time, Pak needs to realize that Taliban are also their real enemies.
There are lessons in this for India. We in India should wait to see what Pakistan will do with the camps in Afghanistan. If Pakistan succeeds in shutting them down, we in India should do exactly the same thing to shut down terrorist training camps in Pakistan and POK. As for the Indian obsession with Pakistan, readers may like to take another look at an editorial in The Express Tribune. It was called "Language of hate", May 29, 2012. The following is an extract from it: "Pakistan’s obsession with India is tearing apart the basic fabric of the former’s society, leading to a self-destructive phase."
Did he count them correctly ? He says 121 insurgent camps in Baluchistan. how did he count them ?
Now let's hear about the number of training camps in FATA run by strategic "Assets" of the state!
Why he is not appearing before the CJ & take action against the camps operating in Bolochistan? This should be properly investigated by GOB & if found incompetent, he should be dismissed.
Then why are you sitting there so complacently ,,,
Take action !!!
This does not come as a shock, Balochistan has become a whole different terrain in the last decade or so. The land is now part of the same terrorist quagmire as FATA & Afghanistan.
Wow, so many Indian trolls here
Intresting he never said Afghanistan should do more. Kettle calling a pot black.
@Waseem: I agree with you but then please do not blame the US when they try and eliminate those who will try and damage the US.
@Zaid Hamid: you forgot to mention it is a conspiracy against pakistan by Starbucks , KFC, and McDonalds - it is because of people like you that Pakistan is the laughing stock of the world
mr chief justice will take action , let him finish the business of destroying PPP ,the Indian American Jewish state sponsored foreign political party
This is the first time a senior person in Law Enforcement Agency is admitting to the presence of these "factories" that mass-produce terrorists. Next logical step would be to shut them down. But are the Pakistani Armed Forces willing & capable to wipe out this self-created decease? I don't think they are neither willing nor capable because the rogue elements in ISI treat them as assets to create problems in India, Afghanistan and in Pakistan itself!
IG FC has discovered these 160camps. Good Luck. The same old story we had in East Pakistan. What happened at the end is no secret too. By then There was little bit sympathy, Pakisgtan enjoyed. Today no one is on her side.
If this smarty knows the exact number of camps , then surely he must know their location. If so ans instead of doing a press conference he should do his real job. Go and shut down theses camps and stop being a drama queen.
@point blank, no, I don't even visit a single indian website let alone troll there.
tell us about ur performance too
Eliminate all those who even think of damaging Pakistan by any means. That’s the only remedy. No talks with traitors.
and what are you doing as IGFC if there are 130 odd camps playing havoc in Balochistan?
@batman - but u seem to b too obsessed with india ;)
MR. CJ! Here is IG-FC you had summoned, and look he is alive and well. Its just a mere fact that he was too busy in state affairs that he was not able to appear before you. and excuse me sir. "Afghanistan creating unrest??? what we have been doing in Afghanistan for past several years? Planting trees? @Batman! This is an open forum. and I think comments from every where are welcomed here(I think thats the case Mr. Moderator) and one another thing, not only indians but the whole world have now become obsessed with Pakistan, due to our deeds and our past lies.
Why not CJ takes notice on these camps and their supporters who are responsible for unrest in Baluchistan.
No matter how many camps these terrorists have in the end they will fail.
On a side note, notice this indian troll Imran Con is always one of the first people to leave his trolling comments no matter what time of the day, I mean even as a Pakistani myself I'm not as obsessed with my country as these indian trolls are obsessed with Pakistan.
Bollywood movies were found in one of the camps. That proves the Indian RAW hand in it.
"are running concerted campaigns to defame state institutions." Right from the ISPR handbook.
We ought to blame no one but our own myopic leadership for the mess and the creation of faultlines by alienating the People of Balochistan.
I knew it! This is a big conspiracy to destabilize Pakistan by Baloch sardars paid by Afghan backstabbers who are paid by Indian pagan agents who are paid by American CIA spies who are paid by Israeli yahoodi Zionists. The Jews were behind it all along. If anyone can disprove what I said I will shave off my beard and promise to stop disparaging Veena Malik on all articles on ET.
And why does he not say all this infront of the CJ infront of whom he is refusing to appear?
Now, explain it in the Court Mr IGFC.
Sounds like the beginning of nother 1971.
Gud luk.