Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri
Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri is a politician from Balochistan,
Pakistan. He has been leading a nationalist and separatist in the country for
the past four decades. He is also the head of his powerful Marri tribe.Nawab
Khair Baksh Marri, a Marxist by conviction who believes in “movements of
national liberation” went to Afghanistan after the communists took power there
in 1979. He lived in Kabul while a large number of his tribesmen were located in
a big camp near Kandahar in the heyday of the Saur Revolution where they faced
hardships as the communists experienced difficulties.In 1989, the Pakistan
Peoples Party government in Islamabad was already anticipating the fall of
Najibullah's PDPA government and had set up a government of the mujahideen in
exile in Peshawar. The following year, however, under the Pakistan Muslim League
government, a move was set afoot by former Balochistan chief minister Mir Taj
Mohammad Khan Jamali to bring Nawab Khair Baksh Marri, General Sherof Bijarani
(Marri) and his men back from Afghanistan.After the Marris were brought back
they were housed by the government of the day in a camp in the suburbs of
Quetta. That is why the place was called a “camp”. The government demarcated the
land, but did not go through the procedure of legalising the tribe’s ownership
of it. It would therefore be wrong to say that the Marris were in illegal
occupation of the camp. In fact they have become owners through the law of
uninterrupted and unchallenged occupation. That these Marris were a disgruntled
lot no one can deny. That they were fiercely loyal to Nawab Marri too cannot be
denied. Therefore before further aggressive measures are taken in hand and
house-to-house searches are made, these facts should be kept in mind so that the
trouble in Balochistan is not compounded with more summary
injustice.
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