Local.Dada
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It's very tough to be sympathetic to the Balochi tribal fighters. Sure they want freedom from Pakistan but just like the Kurds in Turkey, Hamas in Palestine, Basques in Spain and to an extent, even the old Northern Irish Catholics, they only want it to maintain their legacy of control over the populace. They ride on genuine grievances and dicsconnectedness of the local populace and use terror on innocents as a weapon.
I think India's making the same mistake by funding them as the Americans did with the Taliban. Sure in the short term, it's easy to rationalize "enemy of my enemy is my friend." In the long term though, this has the potential to come back to bite us. Even today, from what I read, Indian agents have to pretend to be Iranians, Arabs etc. in order to get the rank and file Balochis to accept our funding. The underlying hate for India (essentially any outsider) is still there.
I would definitely be more comfortable with Punjabi dominated army of Pakistan having nukes rather than TTP or other radical groups getting hold of them.
The army generals of Pak have a lot to lose unlike some of these terrorists who are ready to kill or die especially with a religious mandate.