Washington DC: March 21, 2012. (By Ahmar Mustikhan) Balochistan unofficial representative at the U.N. Human Rights Council Wednesday exposed the racism against the Baloch in Pakistan media. Mehran Baluch, the youngest and most loved son of veteran Baloch leader Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri, informed the United Nations Human Rights Council, "All kinds of venom, based on xenophobia, is being spewed against the Baloch and Balochistan under military supervision." Balochistan is in the throes of a Bengal-style freedom movement in the backgrop of military atrocities against Baloch civilians and political activists. Mehran Baluch said domesticated animals are central to the lives of pastoral nomads in Central and southwest Asia where Balochistan is situated. Most nomadic cultures usually keep horse, sheep, goat, camel, and cow. Donkeys are quite common in semi-urbanized Baloch culture as an important beast of burden. "Thousands of Baloch families in Lyari, the Harlem of Pakistan, depend on these beasts of burden. The Baloch were a majority in Karachi at the time of 1947 partition tragedy, but have been marginalized and disenfranchised in Karachi society like their brethren elsewhere in Pakistan," Mehran Baluch said. The Baloch area of Lyari was the prescursor of present day Karachi, which was called the "Paris of the East" prior to the 1947 partition holocaust. At the time of India's division by the British, Baloch population numbered 280,000 out of a population of 400,000 in Karachi. The Baloch representative reserved his ire for Geo Televion's Dr. Shaista Waheed's racist comments. A top executive of Geo TV is a brother of Pakistan military pokseperson Maj-Gen Athar Abbas. "On a Pakistan television talk show “Utho Jago Pakistan” or “Rise Wake Up Pakistan”, the hostess Dr. Shaista Waheed ridicules a Baloch man of African descent and makes fun of his life in front of millions of viewers," Mehran Baluch said. The man Abdur Rehman from Lyari has a donkey named "Dumper" who helps him earn his livelihood. Dumper is also a prize-winning and throughout the show Dr. Shaista Waheed makes racist comments against the man and his donkey. In many parts of the world, donkeys are used by poorer folks who live below the subsistence level. "In this day and age, the Baloch with curly hair are laughed upon. “Your curly hair has a specific texture” Dr. Shaista Waheed mocks and then goes on to describe the straightening of hair as a form of positive genetic mutation," Mehran Baluch said. He said, "Honorable president, we are proud of Baloch people of African descent. Just like Dr. Martin Luther King Junior, the Baloch fallen heroes include Lala Munir Baloch, who was forcibly disappeared from his lawyer’s office by Pakistan’s Military Intelligence and killed." The Baloch are either Assyrians or Dravidians, but also includes people of African descent who were sold as slaves in the coastal areas of Balochistan and Sindh until the opening years of last century. Slavery was officially abolished by the British in 1935. People of African descent and mixed races have also played a lead role in the Balochistan movement. Mehran Baluch said, "A fact-finding mission of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan to Balochistan recorded, 'Racism directed towards the Baloch people surfaced quite openly.' Such racism violates the Durban Declaration of 2001." He said utter disregard for the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and rights of the indigenous people, Dr. Shaista Waheed mockingly asked a popular Baloch folk singer if he is a cousin of President Obama. "The scorn towards Baloch on Pakistan media matches the racist statement of al Qaeda chief Ayman al Zwahiri who had called President Obama a 'household slave,'" Mehran Baluch said, adding "Small wonder if Zwahiri is still a favored state guest of Pakistan just like Osama bin Laden."