The Baluch | 21 November 2009
Baluchistan International Conference, Washington D.C.
Organized by American Friends of Balochistan
Baluchistan International Conference, Washington D.C. Organized by American Friends of Balochistan, Nov. 21, 2009. Left to right: Iqbal Tareen, Dr. Gul Agha, Saghir A. Shaikh, PhD., Saleem Samad, M. Mumtaz Khan, Humaira Rahman and event organizer Ahmar Mustikhan.
By way of background, in a 14 November 2008 letter to Senator Hillary Clinton, Mr. Ahmar Mustikhan, the founder of American Friends of Baluchistan (AFB; also on Facebook), writes: “The A.F.B. is delighted honorable Vice President-elect Joe Biden has long been a strong advocate of balkanization of artificially created, unnatural states which can breed nothing but terrorism and instability for the world, just like Pakistan.”
According to the notice posted on the Baluchwarna website the Conference was to be presided over by Mehran Baluch, and was to be addressed by: Selig S. Harrison, T. Kumar, Saghir Shaikh, Robert R. Selle, Annie Nocenti, Andrew Eiva, Prof Gul Agha, Ismail Ameeri. Ali Arjemandi, Mohammad Ali Baloch, Munir Mengal, Dr. Zafar Baloch, Dr. Karim Abdian, Aziz Baloch, Humaira Rahman, Mumtaz Khan and Malik Baloch.
It is unclear who attended the Conference and who sent in their contribution. The following however are selected from what is posted on the site (accessed on 14 July 2010):
Go to Statements by:
Selig Harrison | Robert Selle
Wendy Johnson | Laurie Deamer| Andrew Eiva
Hyrbyair Marri | Asad Rahman
For other speakers see links at TheBaluch website
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