Republican, Dana Rohrabacher, introduced a bill recognising Baluchi nation's right to self-determination last week.
The bill stated that the Baluchi nation “have the right to self-determination and to their own sovereign country; and they should be afforded the opportunity to choose their own status.”
Rohrabacher said,
“The Baluchi, like other nations of people, have an innate right to self-determination,”
“The political and ethnic discrimination they suffer is tragic and made more so because America is financing and selling arms to their oppressors in Islamabad.”
There have been increasing calls to recognise the Baluch nation's right to independnece. In December last year, M. Chris Mason, a retired diplomat and a senior fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies in Washington DC, argued that,
“The permanent solution to the Pakistan problem … lies in 20th-century history. ... The answer to the current Pakistani train wreck is to continue this natural process [of Bangladesh gaining independence from Pakistan] by recognizing Baluchistan’s legitimate claim to independence.”
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