Pakistan has decided to take a page out of the Communist China playbook to crush dissent by building indoctrination camps in the disputed province of Balochistan, the WION reported.
Just as China has been building indoctrination camps to ‘re-educate’ the Uighurs, Pakistan’s army is running two indoctrination camps built along the lines.
The Baloch are Muslims of Sunni denomination but are of different ethnicity and are secular by culture.
Balochistan is the biggest province in Pakistan and is rich with natural resources that are being usurped by China’s mega infrastructure project the China Pakistan Economic Corridor or CPEC.
WION News had reported that the layout of the camps closely aligns with those run by Chinese authorities in the province of Xinjiang. Baloch fighters are reportedly being held captive to alter their psychological, social and cultural conditioning and forcefully instil ‘values’ in them by “transforming them into law-abiding” citizens.
In China, the Uighur Muslims are told to shun Islam but in Pakistani concentration camps, the captured Baloch are forced to study, religious-patriotism and jihad as the key subjects and the objective are to remove any remnants of Balochi nationalism.
Pakistan army is running the camps and is using Islamic affiliated to Jamaat-e-Islami to radicalise them.
Ironically the man who is the brainchild of this operation is Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa former Director-General of the media wing of the Pakistani army who has been accused of corruption of the highest order. Bajwa had used his offices in setting up off-shore businesses for his wife, sons and brothers.
Bajwa had offered to resign from the position of Special Assistant to Pakistani PM Imran Khan on Information and Broadcasting but the resignation was not accepted. He is also the Chairman of China Pakistan Economic Corridor CPEC and has close ties with the Chinese communist party.
As per reports, the camps are being run by Major Gen Irfan Ahmad Malik of GOC 41 Division who has now been succeeded by Major Gen Abid Latif Khan on October 19, 2019.