ISLAMABAD: Renowned analyst Tania Bazai remarked that the current environment is such that even if someone’s chicken gets stolen, the blame is placed on the state.
She was speaking on the Burraq Digital podcast. Regarding Dr. Deen Muhammad, she stated that it’s no secret he was linked to a case involving a RAW agent caught in Iran, whose mobile contained a video referencing Dr. D.M. During investigations, the connection led back to Dr. Deen Muhammad.
He was reportedly running a teaching hospital in Turbat, where injured militants were treated free of charge.
According to Bazai, Dr. Deen Muhammad’s true role was exposed as early as 2008, and now his disappearance is being falsely portrayed as a case of enforced disappearance.
His daughter, Sami Deen, she added, has no credible evidence to prove the state’s involvement in his disappearance.
Tania Bazai asserted that Sami Deen knew well about her father’s activities and should have asked why he treated militants injured in operations against the state without informing authorities.
She further criticized a recent seminar organized by Sami Deen, pointing out that barely 20 people attended, most of whom were Punjabi and Urdu-speaking with no ties to Balochistan.
Ironically, Bazai noted, the same ethnic groups that face violence from Baloch separatists are now showing sympathy towards Sami Deen’s narrative, questioning the consistency of nationalist ideologies.
She also criticized the organizer of the seminar, Sheema Kermani, describing her as a Kathak dancer with no connection to Balochistan or its issues.
Bazai mocked the event’s seriousness, stating that it ended with a dance performance, undermining the supposed solemn cause.
She claimed that the credibility of this movement is already deteriorating globally, and such acts only further damage its image.
Since BYC leaders have been imprisoned, she said, their foreign funding—particularly from India—has stopped, and now dancers are leading their “human rights” campaigns.
Addressing the low attendance at the event, Bazai dismissed excuses about police permissions, arguing that if the Sindh Police hadn’t allowed it, even the few attendees wouldn’t have come.
She claimed the seminar could have been denied permission on the grounds that the audience had no connection to Balochistan.
According to her, this low turnout was a form of divine humiliation and a sign that the movement is failing, now relying on dancers for support.
Finally, Bazai questioned why such anti-state seminars are allowed at all.
She emphasized that people have lost interest in the organizers’ activities and are disillusioned with their motives.
Highlighting that no one is attempting to meet the jailed BYC leadership, she contrasted this with the usual support seen for political detainees.
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Bazai concluded by accusing the leadership of ignoring real issues like education, employment, health, and infrastructure, instead chasing an impossible dream of an independent Balochistan under foreign influence.
