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Speech of Fareen Baloch,
which brought tears to every eye in at the gathering
I remember this day 26th August last year very well.
During the evening on the 26th my father was talking to a friend on the
telephone, when my mother walked in from the other room where she was
watching the news and she told my father that the Pakistani army has
brutally murdered Nawab Bugti. My father was in immediate shock of this
news and he straight away started to ring his Baloch friends from various
areas of the world to find out if both Nawab Bugti and his grandson were
murdered (as told by the news).
My father started to cry and for the rest of the evening
our house was in an aura of silence and sadness. If did not understand why
my father was so emotional when receiving this news, as Nawab Bugti bared
no blood tied relation to our family. I was unaware of the characteristics
of Balochistan and even up until now, I have not visited it. My motherland
and my upbringing have been in Britain. However, my father's land is
Balochistan. The following day the situation became less intense when my
father received the news that the grandson of Nawab Bugti had not been
murdered and was safe and well.
I asked my father how is the person that you cried over
last night. My father replied that he was the nation's father and he was
fighting for the freedom of Balochistan from brutal occupiers named
Pakistan. I asked my father what Balochistan was like, he replied that it
was heaven on earth and its beauty would amaze anyone. My father started
to describe the landscape of Balochistan from its mountains its oasis.
Nawab Bugti for me is like my grandfather and a courageous
individual who at the age of 80 and with one leg paralysed continued to
defend our land. Even though he is not with us here today but he is in our
hearts and he has made every Baloch feel a sense of pride within them. I
feel proud that I am a daughter of Balochistan.
Grandfather, Today I make a promise to you that we will
continue our struggle until one day Inshahallah our land will be free from
the evil that has caused us too much harm. Inshahallah one day Balochistan
will have its independent identity around the world and I hope and pray to
Allah that one day I will be able to stand in my own land and raise my
arms and say "this is my very own watan this my own very Balochistan".
27.8.07 |