'the Core Problem Is Pakistan, It Exported Nuclear Know-how To Iran: Baloch Leader Blasts Munir For 'misleading' Trump

Baloch nationalist leader Hyrbyair Marri has accused Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir of misleading US President Donald Trump during their caller White House meeting, calling Pakistan — not Balochistan — nan halfway root of location instability and atomic proliferation.

Responding to a Reuters study connected Munir's informing to Trump that “occupied Balochistan connected some nan Iranian and Pakistani sides would go a problem if Iran were to collapse,” Marri said nan framing was “not only misleading but profoundly dishonest.”

“The Americans should not heed to this unscrupulous general,” Marri said successful a elaborate station connected X. He based on that nan instability successful nan Middle East and South Asia stems not from Baloch nationalist groups but from nan longstanding policies of Tehran and Islamabad. “The existent sources of instability successful nan region are nan Iranian and Pakistani Islamic republics, some of which person agelong histories of fueling extremism and suppressing occupied nations done unit and state-sponsored terrorism.” 

Marri elaborate really Iran has utilized proxies for illustration nan Houthis, Hezbollah, nan Assad regime, and Iraqi militias to export its power crossed nan region. He accused Pakistan of adopting a akin exemplary by supporting “terrorist organisations specified arsenic Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed to behaviour attacks successful Kashmir successful India, and utilizing various factions to costs a bloody civilian warfare successful Afghanistan for decades.”

“These are not isolated incidents but a well-planned argumentation of utilizing extremism and militancy arsenic devices of overseas policy,” he said.

He besides warned Western governments against ignoring Pakistan’s domiciled successful atomic proliferation. “Americans and nan West should not hide that nan halfway of nan problem is Pakistan because it exported atomic know-how to Iran, Libya and North Korea,” Marri said.

Marri criticised some countries for what he called “nuclear brinkmanship.” He said Iran’s uranium proliferation and Pakistan’s atomic arsenal person been utilized to extract “cushy financial aid, world concessions, and legitimacy for their authoritarian regimes.”

He added that some regimes person entrenched their power by utilizing coercion and intimidation against taste and stateless groups. “Their strategy of exporting coercion and threatening location powers, including their neighbours, Israel and India, has only entrenched their norm connected nan occupied nations for illustration Baloch, Pashtuns, Kurds, Al Ahwaz Arabs, Azeri Turks and others.”

Rejecting nan thought that Baloch groups lend to instability, Marri said: “The Baloch struggle is not rooted successful extremism but successful a morganatic activity for dignity, justice, and freedom.”

He urged nan world organization to reconsider its narrative: “If nan world seeks existent bid and tranquility successful nan Middle East and South Asia, it must extremity viewing Balochistan done nan lens of Pakistani aliases Iranian propaganda. The clip has travel to recognise who nan existent threats are and who are nan imaginable partners for bid and stability. Independent Balochistan is nan request of nan hour.”

Marri's remarks came successful consequence to a Reuters study that revealed General Asim Munir raised concerns astir separatist and jihadist outfits connected some sides of nan Iran-Pakistan border, informing they could escalate attacks if Iranian authorities authority collapses. Pakistan is besides reportedly uneasy astir Israel’s strikes connected Iran’s atomic accommodation and fears nan precedent specified action could set.

The Iranian Sunni jihadist group Jaish al-Adl — which draws support from taste Baluch minorities and operates from Pakistani territory — welcomed nan upheaval. On June 13, nan group released a connection calling nan Israeli-Iran conflict “a awesome opportunity,” urging Baluch and Iranian subject forces to “join nan ranks of nan Resistance.”

Pakistan, connected nan different hand, fears that separatist Baloch militants based successful Iran could utilization nan instability to motorboat caller attacks connected its broadside of nan border.