{"id":87594,"date":"2019-04-24T15:24:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T22:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87594"},"modified":"2019-04-24T15:24:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T22:24:28","slug":"pakistans-new-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/24\/pakistans-new-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"PAKISTAN\u2019S NEW IDENTITY"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALI SUKHANVER<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Prime\nMinister Imran Khan\u2019s two-day official visit to Iran is certainly going to\nbring the two neighbouring countries more close to each other. Pakistan and\nIran have a very long history of cordial relationship. Iran was the ever first\ncountry to recognize Pakistan\u2019s sovereign status after its independence in\n1947. Moreover the Shah of Iran was the first head of state that paid an\nofficial visit to Pakistan. According to a survey conducted by the PEW Research\nCenter, Pakistan is a country where Iran is viewed positively. The conclusion\nreport of that survey says, Polls have consistently shown that a very high\nproportion of Pakistanis view their western neighbor Iran positively.\u201d But in\nspite of all this cordiality, things have not always been very good between\nthese two countries and \u2018credit\u2019 of creating rather \u2018encouraging\u2019\nmisunderstandings between Iran and Pakistan certainly goes to the Indian agents\nof R&AW who have ever been very active in the bordering area of the two\ncountries. On both sides this area is known as Baluchistan; on Iranian side\nthis area comprises of 180,726 km\u00b2 and a population of 2,775,014, whereas on\nPakistani side the total area of Baluchistan is 347,190 km2 and population is\n12,344,408. Baluchistan is a treasure land on both sides having immeasurable\nmineral deposits of Chromite, Copper, Lead, Iron, Zinc, Titanium, Manganese and\nGold. On Pakistan\u2019s side reserves of Copper and Gold were discovered in\ndistrict Chaghai at Saindak and Rekodiq. Experts say that the deposits of Gold\nat Saindak and Rekodiq are of finest quality. \nIn short the mountains of Baluchistan are simply heaps of gold and other\nprecious minerals and these minerals are making every one\u2019s mouth water. By\nkilling innocent people in Baluchistan sometimes in the name of sectarianism\nand sometimes in the name of racial identities, the agents of R&AW are trying\nto give the world an impression that there is no writ of the government of\nPakistan in that region. When the security agencies start taking seriously\nstrict action against such culprits, the agents of R&AW sitting in\ndifferent western and Indian media houses start a blame game against the\nsecurity agencies of Pakistan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\nfew days back on 18th<\/sup> of April, more than fifteen terrorists\ncamouflaged in Frontier Corps uniform barricaded the road and stopped four\nbuses traveling to Gwadar from Ormara on the Makran Coastal Highway,\nBaluchistan. They checked the identity cards of all the passengers and off\nloaded fourteen of them who in fact belonged to the security forces of Pakistan.\nThey were made to stand in a queue and then all shot dead. It was reported that\nthe terrorists had come there from the Iranian side of Baluchistan and after\n\u2018performing\u2019 this massacre they ran back to the area they belonged to. As the\nterrorists had camouflaged themselves in the uniform of the Frontier Corps, it\nis very much obvious that they simply wanted to give an impression that this\ncowardly act was done by the security personnel of Pakistan. Though BRAS, an\nalliance of three terrorist organizations has claimed responsibility for this\nterrorist act but still things are not very much clear. But one thing is very\nmuch clear that the terrorists had come from the Iranian area and returned\nthere after completion of the task assigned. The foreign office of Pakistan has\nwritten a letter to the Iranian Embassy which says, The information about the\nhubs of these Baloch terrorist organizations in Iran, having training camps and\nlogistics bases across the border, was shared with Iranian intelligence in the recent\npast, and on a number of occasions earlier. Unfortunately, no action has been\ntaken by Iran in this regard, to date.\u201d The letter further says, Killing of 14\ninnocent Pakistanis by terrorists groups based in Iran is a very serious\nincident that Pakistan protests strongly. Pakistan awaits Iran\u2019s response to\nits request for action against these groups based in Iran, whose locations have\nbeen identified by Pakistan a number of times.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever\nis happening there in Baluchistan has a direct link with the CPEC, with Gwadar\nDeep Sea Port Project and the recently discovered huge oil reserves close to\nthe Iran border located 230km of Karachi\u2019s offshore. Hu Weijia said reporting\nin the Global Times, Pakistan may soon hit the oil jackpot, and that will be\ngood news for not only the country itself but all of South Asia as well as\nChina and Gulf nations.\u201d According to different media reports, US oil giant\nExxon Mobil and Italy’s ENI have been involved in drilling process since\nJanuary 2019. Experts say that on one hand these oil reserves would prove\nanother CPEC like game changer for Pakistan and on the other hand these\nreserves would play a very important role in bringing the South Asian countries\ncloser. This closeness would certainly bring a new spring of peace and\nprosperity in the region. Other than Mobil and ENI, there are so many other\ninternational companies which are willing to be a partner in different projects\nrelated to digging of the \u2018oil-wells\u2019. Experts are of the opinion that if\nPakistan succeeds in attracting more companies to the project, it would\ncertainly help Pakistan in fighting its present financial crisis. In short, it\nis being predicted that in near future Pakistan is going to gain a new\nidentity; the identity of a leading oil producing country. It seems that some\nof the neighbouring countries are taking this new expected identity of Pakistan\nas a threat and a challenge to their own existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ALI SUKHANVER Prime Minister Imran Khan\u2019s two-day official visit to Iran is certainly going to bring the two neighbouring countries more close to each other. Pakistan and Iran have a very long history of cordial relationship. Iran was the ever first country to recognize Pakistan\u2019s sovereign status after its independence in 1947. Moreover the Shah […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ali-sukhanver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}