By Archen Baloch
Quetta: At the time when Pakistan was about to carry out nuclear tests in Balochistan, the patriotic Baloch leader HyrBeyar Marri was a member of the so called Provincial assembly, and also holding the portfolio of the environmental ministry. Knowing the fact that Pakistan would response Indian Nuclear tests and the place where it would probably conduct the tests, He immediately issued a press release to the Intekhab daily newspaper and vehemently asked the Nawaz Sharif government not to carry out nuclear tests in Balochistan district of Chagai.
In his statement he said that Balochistan was already a backward area and the proof of it was that it had the highest rate of mortality. Reasoning with long-running radioactive disastrous effects, the Baloch leader said that given the backwardness, the test would have ever lasting negative effects on Balochistan’s ecological system. The radioactivity would last generation after generation and we would suffer from the radioactivity of the tests in the region, he said.
The Patriotic Baloch leaders had rightly predicted that the foreign nuclear experts would never be allowed to observer and check themselves the radioactive level and its negative effects human being in the name of security risk. Citing the Nagasaki and Hiroshima example, Mir Hyr Beyar Marri said that a developed country like Japan could not get rid of the appalling negative effects of radioactivity which was a century old atomic technology. He said that the effects of current modern nuclear radioactivity were hundred times more dangerous than the previous ones. Cautioning Pakistani rulers he said that the range of radioactivity cannot be imagined by a common man to what extent it would expand.
Baloch leader suggested that if the intention of the rulers was of that Soorma marshal disposition, then they could conduct the tests in the areas adjacent to Indian border to prove their marshal nature. “There is no scarcity of such barren lands in other parts of Pakistan, such as Cholistan and Tharparker Badin all these areas are appropriate places for the tests because they are adjacent to Rajestan state where India has conducted its all nuclear test series”.
Baloch leader expressing his apprehension posed the question: isn’t it the case that these weapons would be used against Balochistan people made in the name of defense? Expressing his concern he further said that Pakistani rulers might reject the suggestion of conducting the nuclear tests in Cholistan area in the name of wild lives preservation of that area. They are rather concerned about wildlife than the mankind in Balochistan. He reiterated that if he was given the right to express his opinion, then they would strongly oppose/resist the nuclear tests on Baloch soil. He said that Pakistan has always ignored Balochistan, let alone bothering to mitigate the abject poverty, illiteracy and backwardness of it.
“Balochistan is now dearly being remembered as a “nuclear test zone”; as they are now badly in need of carrying out possible nuclear tests” said Marri
He said that perhaps the rulers have the sympathy of killing our people in a single go, instead of allowing them to die in a painful slow death.
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