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Self-exiled Baloch leader arrested on return to Pakistan
Nawabzada Ghazeen Marri, the son of Baloch nationalist politician Nawab Khair Bukhsh Marri, was arrested "upon his arrival" at Quetta airport, sources told The Express Tribune.
Ghazeen had been living in exile in the United Arab Emirates for the past 18 years, but decided to return "to live rest of my life with my people."
"I've spent 18 years in exile.Now, I want to live rest of my life with my people," he had said.
The former home minister of Balochistanprovince, accused of killing a High Court judge in 2000, was taken into custody despite being "granted protective bail," his lawyer said.
His lawyer further claimed that Ghazeen has been moved to an undisclosed location.
The Balochistan government had expressed "no objection" to his return, but had warned that "if there are any cases against him, he would have to face them in the court of law."
Ghazeen is the younger brother of the slain Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) leader Balach Marri. The Pakistan government has accused the BLA of separatist violence in the province.
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History of Balochistan
The history of Balochistan refers to the history of the Balochistan region of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. Vague allusions to the region were found in Greek historical records of around 650 BCE. Prehistoric Balochistan dates to the Paleolithic.
Throughout history, Balochistan has served as a vibrant center of civilization, interacting since ancient times with centers of civilization in the ancient world.
There is evidence of ancient human settlements in Balochistan dating back to around 7000 BCE.
Ancient history
The earliest evidence of human occupation in what is now Balochistan is dated to the Paleolithic era, represented by hunting camps, as well as chipped and flaked stone tools. The earliest settled villages in the region date to the ceramic Neolithic (c. 7000–5500 BCE), and included the Neolithic site of Mehrgarh located in the Kachi Plain. These villages expanded in size during the subsequent Chalcolithic, when interaction increased. This involved the movement of finished goods and raw materials, including chank shell, lapis lazuli, turquoise, and ceramics. By the Bronze Age in 2500 BCE, Balochistan had become part of the Harappan cultural orbit, providing key resources to the expansive settlements of the Indus river basin to the east. Pakistani Balochistan marked the westernmost extent of the Indus Valley civilisation.
The remnants of the earliest people in Balochistan were the Brahui people, a Dravidian speaking people. The Brahuis were originally Hindus and Buddhists, similar to the Indo-Aryan and Dravidian speaking peoples in the rest of the subcontinent. The Brahuis retained the Dravidian language throughout the millennias.
In 650 BC, the Greek historian Herodotus described the Paraitakenoi as a tribe ruled by Deiokes, a Persian zaid, in north-western Persia (History I.101). The Achaemenids established the Satrapies of Gedrosia and Arachosia in Balochistan after its conquest in 6 In 2005, an incident in the Bugti area triggered unrest which was put down by the army, resulting in the first big migration of the Baloch. In June 2013, Nawabzada Guhram Bugti led a fifty-five-day long protest in Islamabad at the head of 400 tribesmen, demanding that 200,000 Bugtis displaced by the army be repatriated. He said: “These people are living under the open sky for the last eight years in Jamshoro, Sanghar, Ghotki, Rohti and Karachi districts of Sindh.” There were Baloch claims that thousands of Baloch had been made to ‘disappear’ by the army in its paramilitary Frontier Corps manifestation. The phenomenon of the ‘disappeared’ Baloch has moved the rest of the country, the media taking the lead in highlighting the tendency of the army to function without accountability when dealing with Baloch ‘rebels’. An assertive Supreme Court headed by a former lawyer from Balochistan took note of the plight of the families looking for their sons. The Court held more than seventy hearings on the situation in Balochistan but to no notable effect. Apart from further persuading the public in the country that Balochistan was suffering under arbitrary rule, it has been unable to correct the status quo of oppression in the province. British journalist Declan Walsh was expelled from Pakistan last year after his report, ‘Pakistan’s Secret Dirty War’ appeared inGuardian, graphically describing the atrocities earlier also reported in the Pakistani media. … But there are other human rights violations too in Balochistan that cannot be ignored. In May 2012, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) sent a large delegation of observers to Balochistan to inquire into the allegations of strong-arm methods by the security agencies and terrorism by the Baloch separatists. The report of this fact-finding mission was pessimistic. The province was undergoing rapid transformation, succumbing to Islamic radicalism encouraged by the state to counter the challenge it thought w