There are some media personalities in Pakistan who seem to be more concerned about what an academic of Indian origin or others said about Karima Baloch’s death. It would have been a decent, & civilised thing to have expressed sorrow over her death. Sadly not. 1/n

They clearly have not shown understanding of this sensitive issue with its historical and turbulent context. Neither they seem to have the wisdom not to turn it into an Indo-Pak issue because it is not. Foremost, why is that many Baloch have left Pakistan and sought to find 2/n

refuge abroad for decades? Why is that leaders like Sheikh Mujib who played a leading part in Pakistan movement were pushed into contacting Nehru for helping secure Bengal’s rights? Why Balochistan is a no go area for most of Pakistan’s media? Why they have not noted that 3/n

Karima Baloch is the third young Baloch exile to die in the recent years in strange circumstances after Arif Barakzai in Jan 2008 in Sweden, Sajid Husain in May 2020 in Norway? Don’t jump to conclusions but context is important. But hiding behind anti-India rhetoric 4/n

reminds me of 1971 when the overwhelming majority of (West) Pakistanis were clueless about what was happening in East Pakistan and remain so to date. We need to set our house in order and learn from history. One can start by acknowledging we have made blunders in Balochistan 5/n