Fair enough to suggest that we assume that we have established the above as the start point.
How do you suggest we now proceed? If we are taking excruciating technical details, then please do factor in tribal mindset in your proposed solution.
If tribalism is being framed as the obstacle to reform and integration, then we should know that the province isn't uniform on it.......
Makran, meaning Kech, Panjgur and Gwadar, never had a sardari system at all, and it's the most urban and literate part of Balochistan with its own universities.... The center of gravity of anti-Pakistan militant insurgency has already shifted there...... The fighters and protesters today are largely students, graduates and urban professionals organizing horizontally....
So "factor in the tribal mindset" is partly fighting the last war..... The more urgent question is what you do with an educated, politically conscious population that believes that they have exhausted every available legal avenue and watched the state respond with disappearances and military courts....
As for the tribal belt, the sardari system survived this long because the state kept it alive..... Sandeman's sardar-sarkar arrangement wasn't Baloch tradition, it was colonial administrative policy, and Pakistan inherited it wholesale because governing through 20 chiefs is cheaper and far more convenient than building institutions for millions.... And tbh, you can't outsource governance to tribal intermediaries for a century and then cite tribalism as the excuse for why schools, courts and revenue systems never arrived......
Coming back to the solution part, the tribal system collapses when the state actually shows up,.... Functioning courts so disputes don't need a jirga... fiscal transfers direct to local government so patronage doesn't run through the chief... Makran proves it on its own.
The starting point is simple, even if the execution isn't....... You cannot negotiate legitimacy retroactively, but you can build it going forward.....
Just 3 things you need, running together......
1) Real fiscal devolution and autonomy at provincial level
2) Political normalisation, meaning elected civilian government without establishment management
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3) The missing persons file opened and closed honestly.... And an actual accounting of state conduct since 1948, not a managed narrative...
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Edit: To be clear, as for the BLA and other terrorists who take up arms against the state, no mercy for those who refuse to surrender....... A militant with a gun is a legitimate target, full stop........ But that's containment, not a cure....... The real solution is denying them legitimacy and support among the locals...... Kill a hundred fighters and a resentful population produces 2 hundred more.... Address the grievance and the recruitment pool dries up on its own ultimately.....
