WASHINGTON, DC: April 16, 2011. (PCP) Yesterday it was Bangladesh, today is it Balochistan. Pakistani occupiers used to say before 1971 Bengalis are lazy and indolent, do not work in the rice fields or jute mills. Now they are using the same language for the Baloch in Balochistan mines. This came to light at an event "Turmoil in Balochistan" Firday at the chic new building of the United States Institute of Peace on Connecticut Avenue. In a letter to the U.S.I.P. the pro-independence American Friends of Balochistan protested the racist comment made by Ejaz Haider, contributing editor the Friday Times. "He insinuated as if the Baloch are lazy by saying that though the mines [coal, copper, marble, etc.] are in Balochistan, the Baloch do not work and the miners are drawn from Swat and Dir," A.F.B. Presiding Council members Malik Baloch and Zahid Mir wrote to U.S.I.P. officials. The two activists said the same kind of arguments were used against the Bengalis in Bangladesh prior to 1971 by the Punjabi occupiers that the Bengalis were lazy and did not work. The U.S.I.P. is a body that is considered an alternate to the State Department and takes an enlightened and bipartisan approach on foreign issues. "As you might be knowing Balochistan was occupied at gunpoint by Pakistan on March 27, 1948 against the unanimous resolution of the Balochistan bicameral parliament, Diwa-i-Aam and Diwan-i-Khas," Malik Baloch and Zahid Mir told the U.S.I.P. "It is for this reason, Baloch view Pakistan founder M.A. Jinnah as one of the biggest thugs in history. May he burn in hell." The two A.F.B. activists said in the last eight months, more than 130 Baloch political and civil rights activists that include lawyers, teachers, artistes, youth and student leaders have been killed Nazi-style by Pakistani occupation forces. These Pakistani forces are the Military Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence and Frontier Corps. "The victims were first abducted, tortured at military torture cells, killed execution style and then their bodies dumped for animals to eat in one of the worst forms of indignity inflicted on the human person," Baloch and Mir said. "In this backdrop, the Baloch have been extremely offended by the views of two Pakistani specialists who were on the panel of the talk Turmoil in Balochistan," they said. The two Pakistanis were using cliches against the Baloch people as if it was a Pakistani television or radio show, though the U.S.I.P. should be totally neutral and objective, the Baloch activists said. they also tried to tie the Baloch movement to Islamic fundamentailsm. "We learned that Barrister Shazadee Beg and Ejaz Haider, contributing editor of the Friday Times, who could not even pronounce Baloch proper names of persons and places correctly, let alone presenting any objective analysis of the Nazi-style atrocities being perpetrated on the people of Balochistan, rubbed salt to the Baloch national wounds," they deplored, adding U.S.I.P. venue should not be allowed for such dirty Pakistani propaganda. "Ms. Beg was heaping scorn on Balochistan statesman Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, who never lost any elections and lying that the salaries of Baloch workers was kept at his feet for disbursement. The fact remains that Sui that is Bugti territory produces $6 million of natural gas each day and Balochistan gets only 11 days worth of those monies while the Punjabi occupiers pocket the rest. This has been happening for the last 50 or so years," they said. "Pakistani army generals are butchers who conducted a genocide of three million Bengalis and raped more than 200,000 of their women and the Pakistani army soldiers are repeating the same Nazi-tyle atrocities in Balochistan, they said. They appealed to the U.S.I.P. not to include Pakistanis and Iranians whenever there is a talk on Balochistan as the Baloch do not expect of them to take an objective and neutral stand on the Balochistan question. "We must reiterate Balochistan means the land of the Baloch and it has meant that for at least one thousand years, and no amount of Pakistani or Iranian state terrorism will change that ground reality," Malik Baloch and Zahid Mir said. On the other hand Pakistan means "land of the pure" and the name was concocted to insult the Hindus who are in a majority in India, they added. "As secular people of Balochistan, we publicly denounce that both Pakistan and Iran are 'Islamic republics' which means only a Muslim can become the head of state and government in either country." However, the two A.F.B. activists commended American scholar Selig S. Harrison, who knows about Balochistan more than anybody else in the U.S.A., for brilliantly articulating the Balochistan situation. Harrison, who is Asia director at the Center for International Policy, said in his talk that independence of Balochistan was in the vital interests of the United States. The A.F.B. also sent a copy of its letter to the U.S.I.P. to Akramul Qader, ambassador of Bangladesh to the U.S.A.