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WASHINGTON DC: A senior Baloch journalist has urged two key American journalists’ organizations to expose the
dangers posed to the world by Pakistan's atomic Bomb and called for monitoring the radiation levels in Chagai in
Pakistan-occupied Balochistan.

In a letter addressed to members of the Asian American Journalists Association and South Asian Journalists
Association on the ninth anniversary of Pakistan's testing of the atomic Bomb in Chagai, U.S.-based journalist,
Ahmar Mustikhan described Pakistan as a failed state and the most dangerous nation on the face of earth.
Pakistan tested the atomic Bomb in Chagai on May 28, 1998, unleashing a nuclear holocaust on Balochistan's
environment.

Mustikhan also strongly deplored the recent beheading of a Baloch at the hands of the Taliba'an on charges that
he was a U.S. spy.

Following is the full text of Mustikhan's letter to members of the Asian American Journalists Association and
South Asian Journalists Association:

I am a journalist of Baloch ethnic origin, belong to a widely known family and now live in the United States. I am a
member of the South Asian Journalists Association and Asian American Journalists Association and am writing
to you in that capacity.

I am writing this open letter to you on the ninth anniversary of Pakistan’s nuclear testing in Balochistan, a Texas-
sized territory divided among Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. It was there in Chagai, in Pakistani occupied
Balochistan, where the world’s first atomic Bomb was tested on May 28, 1998.

I must stress the Indian tests in Pokhran were equally despicable, but a major difference is that Pakistan
conducted the tests on occupied lands, against the wishes of the Baloch people.

As a matter of record, Balochistan remained an independent nation until its forced annexation on March 27, 1948.
Not many know Balochistan was granted independence few days prior to the British granting independence to
India and carving out Pakistan on August 14, 1947.

The recent violence in Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi that left nearly four dozen killed and scores injured
exposed Pakistan’s status as a failed state. From day one, the state of Pakistan has not been a very legitimate
organization. Interestingly Pakistan’s present army chief and self-styled president Gen. Pervez Musharraf does
not have roots in the country.

A former New York cabbie Altaf Hussain, founder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), is said to have planned
the latest violence in Karachi to help keep Musharraf in power. Both Musharraf and Hussain are Mohajirs, or
offspring of Muslims from India who crossed into Pakistan at the time of the 1947 partition of India. Interestingly,
Pakistani intelligence services, which originally had spawned MQM, have for many years’ maintained dossiers on
Hussain, who is now a British citizen, alleging he has received generous financial help from its archenemy India
as a tit-for-tat against Pakistani terrorism in Kashmir.

Ironically, Hindus and Muslims had lived together for hundreds of years before the British set foot on Indian soil,
had continued to live together under their rule but when the British were leaving India, they divided it into two
countries, saying Hindus and Muslim could not live together. The faulty design of Pakistan was crystal clear from
day one: there were initially two wings, West Pakistan and East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, until December 1971.
When the Bengalis revolted against Pakistan army injustices, the worst ever massacre of Bengali Muslims was
committed in Bangladesh. The rape of Muslim women by Muslim soldiers of Pakistan army in Bangladesh in
1971 is unprecedented in history.

Returning to the main subject of my missive, I urge you as journalists please highlight the issue of the nuclear
fallout in Balochistan and the plight of Baloch people, which has received scant mention in the U.S. media.
Tribesmen families have been dying of unknown causes, local media reports suggest. There have also been
widespread reports of camels and livestock perishing in the Chagai area of Balochistan, but Pakistan army has
completely blocked the Chagai nuclear test range from the international media and no conclusive test of the
radiation level in Chagai has ever been conducted.

As I write these lines, Pakistan army is conducting a ruthless army operation in Balochistan, much like what they
did in the former East Pakistan. Hundreds of women and children have also been killed in the newest army
operation that was launched more than two years ago.

An ominous aspect of the tragedy in Balochistan is the recently released Taliba’an video that showed a 12-year-
old Pashtun boy brutally beheading an ethnic Baloch, who was helping U.S. and N.A.T.O. forces inside
Afghanistan. The incident is diabolical to the extreme as it involved an ethnic Pashtun Taliba’an punishing an
ethnic Baloch for allegedly spying on behalf of the U.S. Though Baloch people have been victims of Pakistan’s
Islamic terrorism unleashed on them for nearly six decades, this was a clear case of Islamic terrorism by a non-
state actor. However, please note the Taliba’an was a creation of Pakistan’s dreaded spy service Inter Services
Intelligence and as journalists, you may agree such nuptial ties are not easily severed.

I must bring to your attention Pakistan is today the world’s most dangerous state as it is the headquarters of Al
Qaeda; Pakistan has nuclear weapons and has the world’s seventh largest army; and Pakistan protecting not
only bin Laden but also the world’s worst nuclear smuggler Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan.

As such, Pakistan poses a threat not only to the Baloch people but entire humanity. Unfortunately powers-that-be
in North America and Europe have closed their eyes to the terror threat from Pakistan. I urge you all to help
expose the issue of nuclear contamination in Balochistan.

If you need any further info, please feel free to call me at 301-247-9024.

Sincerely,

Ahmar Mustikhan
45893 Ketch Court
Lexington Park
MD 20653

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