QUETTA: Leading Baloch human rights defender, Mir Yar Baloch, wrote to US President Donald Trump raising alarm over the recently approved $686 million US military aid to Pakistan, warning that the funds would enable further repression and terror against Baloch civilians.
The human rights activist highlighted that the Baloch people have endured seventy-seven years of Pakistani occupation, marked by enforced disappearances and systematic extermination, much of it carried out with weapons bearing the mark “Made in USA.”
In a letter addressed to President Trump, Mir said, “With the highest respect for you personally and for the great American people, we make this direct, solemn, and urgent plea: Immediately revoke and permanently cancel the recently approved military package to Pakistan including the $686 million F-16 sustainment and upgrade program and all associated security assistance totaling hundreds of millions more. These are not defensive tools. These are the very aircraft and munitions that have repeatedly bombed Baloch civilian areas, killed our women and children, and assassinated our leaders.”