Gholam Haidar Baloch will be executed if he is transferred to Iran

By Reza Hossein Borr, London, 14.5.08

Balochistan Human Rights Watch reported that  Gholam Haidar Baloch, a Pakistan  national who was arrested for carrying unauthorized arms in Pakistan  will be extradited to Iran after the court sentenced him for one-year imprisonment .  The new government of Pakistan who has not sufficient experience in foreign policy of the region has decided to deliver this Pakistani citizen as the Iranian government claims that he is an Iranian national and he has committed crimes in Iran.

Gholam Haidar claims to be a Pakistan national as he carries a Pakistan identity card and his family and three children live in Pakistan too.  He was born in 1979 and his father's name is Khodabax.  His delivery to Iran is against Pakistani law as he was sentenced this January 08 only for one year.

The Iranian regime claims that thousands of its opponents live in neighboring countries including Pakistan.  It also claims that its opponents have taken arm against it and they are involved in armed struggle.

Three to four million Baluch live in Iran. They have been the target of governments oppression, assassination, torture and executions since the emergence of Islamic Republic of Iran as they are different racially and religiously from the Shia regime.  The Baluch are Sunis and moderate in their views.  The Iranian regime has deliberately kept them poor and backward and has denied them business and job opportunities. Only about five percent of the Baluch people have governmental jobs.  The rest are making their living through farming, border trading and other small businesses.  Border trading that has been their main source of income has been recently stopped as the Iranian regime has erected huge walls like Berlin Wall or the Walls in Palestine along the borders.  It has also dug very deep canals at the borders.  The Baluch people were exporting and importing consumer products in and from Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan.  Border trading is their most important way of living.  According to an official figure, 76 percent of the Baluch people live under poverty line.  This is a policy of complete deprivation of the Baluch people from the basic needs to force them to the leave the country or starve from hunger.

Some young Baluch people who have been arrested and tortured by the government, took arms against the regime in the last few years and they have been involved in severe armed clashes with the government.  The Baluch people who have seen all doors and opportunities closed to them, are desperate for making their voices heard. 

Gholam Haidar is accused of being an active member of an armed organization. His parents and relatives have Pakistani identity card and passports.  Other Pakistan citizens have seen him growing up in Pakistan.  Iran’s claim that he is an Iranian national is baseless and therefore,  the Pakistani government has no legal and moral authority to transfer this Pakistan national to Iran as when he is transferred to Iran he will be tortured and forced into false confessions which will implicate other countries and specifically the Western and Middle Eastern countries in meddling in Iranian affairs.  As you are aware the Iranian regime has killed and executed a large number of Iranian and Baluch people.  There is no doubt that torture and hanging would wait for Ghlam Haidar Baloch if he is transferred to Iran.

Those Baluch people who were arrested inside Iran were forced to confess that they were spies of foreign countries.  Gholam Haidar is a Pakistan citizen and he has lived all his life in Pakistan and therefore, if he is transferred to Iran, he will be forced to confess that he had performed terrorist activities by the instructions of United States of America, Britain and possibly other countries in the Middle East.  This will be a huge embarrassment not only for Baluch people but also for all other countries that have been accused by the Iranian government for supporting the Iranian opposition.

Reza Hossein Borr is a leadership consultant and the creator of 150 CDs and 14 Change management models. He is also the author of Manual Success, Manual of Coaching and Mentoring, Motivational Stories that Can Change Your Life, and a New Vision for the Islamic World. He can be contacted by email: balochfront@aol.com   Site: www.rezaaa.com