QUETTA: The selective outrage expressed by Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) over the killing of Baloch youth in the province raised serious questions about the group intensions and motives, which positions itself as champion of Baloch right.
According to details, the BYC loudly condemned the killing of Zeeshan Zaheer, a wanted militant, in Panjgur on July 2. The BYC labeled the incident as “state brutality” and took to the streets in protest and the so-called right activists like Sami Deen Baloch described the case as evidence of lawlessness. But the BYC and Sami Deen Baloch kept silence over the brutal killing of two innocent Baloch men, Jamal and Arzi, who were publicly executed by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) in Machh, not a single word of condemnation emerged from the same voices which shows the motives and intentions of the group towards the rights of selective Baloch.
The political observers said that this silence is not just disappointing, it is dangerous. It reflects a double standard that appears to grant violent anti-state actors’ immunity from public accountability. Such inconsistency feeds the very impunity that allows groups like the BLA to carry out internal assassinations and targeting the innocent Baloch people because they were peace loving and rejected the narrative of destruction in the province.
Earlier this year, the BLA hijacked the Jaffar Express, killing 34 innocent passengers, in an attack widely condemned as an act of terrorism by international observers. Now, by executing local Baloch civilians in broad daylight, the group is shredding its own narrative of defending “Baloch rights.”
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Each act of violence makes it clearer: this is not a liberation movement working toward collective welfare, it is a brutal power struggle, cloaked in the language of resistance but executed with the tools of terror.
Unless civil society and rights groups hold all perpetrators accountable, whether state or non-state, the cycle of violence will continue, and with it, the erosion of the very moral ground on which justice movements stand.
