Three local political leaders were kidnapped in a small legal office in April, handcuffed, blindfolded and played in a truck that was waiting for them, in front of his/her lawyer and of local merchants. Their bodies, full of candies and in advanced state of decomposition because of the burning heat, were found later at a forest five days later.

In spite of not having the same scale of the conflict with Taleban in the northwest, the conflict in Baluchistan is little by little winning land. Political and analysts alert that it presents a second front that distracts the authorities, attracting the resources, as helicopters, that the United States supplied Pakistan to struggle against Taleban and to Al Qaeda.

Nationalist of Baluchistan and some Pakistani politicians say that the conflict in the area has potential to divide the country – Baluchistan has a third of the territory of Pakistan – unless the government answers urgently to the years of repressed resentment and stop the action of the military ones and safety’s services.

The discovery of the men’s bodies on April 8 unchained days of violence, and weeks of strikes, protests and civil resistance. In the schools and universities, the students tore the Pakistani flag and they put in it place the nationalist flag of Baluchistan, clear blue, red and green.

Via: NYT.