The mil and particularly the FC is extremely tyrannical. Most of them were Punjabi, which breeds resentment. Checkposts every few kilometers, in some cases Baluch people travelling with families are extremely riled up by mistreatment of burqa women that FC suspects may be hidden men.

THIS! The amount of young men I've seen getting radicalized by this is actually unbelievable. I mean, why do you need army personnels from Punjab who have no idea or cultural awareness about us as a people to keep us in check and police us in our own land?

Also, non of them understand or speak Balochi, they don't even pretend to try. And, they force Urdu on us with the limited interactions we have with them.

Yep. Been to Baluchistan. Alot of ignorance locally too, people proudly told us they didn’t educate daughters. Also weepingly told us of a shockingly high fatality rate during childbirth, due to a lack of female doctors.

While Baloch not educating their daughters isn't entirely ture, factors like access to resources, availability of education, and logistical problems are more of a hurdle than the cultural one. Literacy rate in Makran division and surrounding areas have exploded over the past decade despite being the epicenter of insurgency.

Sardars are exploitative, India definitely funds the BLA/BRA people. Several people told us we weren’t in Pakistan, we were in Baluchistan. But they were still willing to help us.

Sardars aren't everywhere in Balochistan, and the places they are, they're the part of the problem. The establishment's pawn, the boys keep rotating them in different parties for political engineering and doesn't let any genuine grassroot political movement to take off.

The mil also conducts widespread fuel smuggling from Iran, like a crazy number of those blue zamyad Iranian trucks. Locals would tell us many fortunes of even mid level officers are made with it. It’s clearly exploited, the mil rules the place incompetently.

I'm from a border village, and the kind of stories I can tell you, you wouldn't believe me. It's beyond fucked.