Member of a DC-based Baluch group has accused former dictator and coup leader General Pervez Musharraf for being responsible for killing civilian leaders in Pakistan.
In a statement castigating the Stevenson University administration for inviting the former dictator, Mohammad Ali Baluch, a member of the American Friends of Baluchistan, said, "Musharraf was responsible for killing Baluchistan's most popular leader former governor and chief minister Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti and also former premier Benazir Bhutto. Like any dictator he belongs to the dustbin of history not the pedestal of learning at a private American University, the Stevenson University."
Musharraf, who left the presidency in disgrace fearing impeachment, has been invited by the university on Tuesday [September 29, 2009] to kick off the 2009-2010 Baltimore Speaker Series at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Sponsors of the event include Baltimore Sun, public radio WYPR, Greater Baltimore Committee and St. John Properties.
Baluch recalled Musharraf had seized power through a coup in October 1999 after dismissing a democratically elected government [of former premier Nawaz Sharif]. "Like any tinpot dictator he is bereft of intellect and scholarship and we fail to unerstand why Stevenson University chose to pay and honor a criminal despot," Baluch blasted the university administration.
Baluch asked peace and democracy loving students and faculty of the Stevenson University, residents of Baltimore and those who believe in peace, justice and democracy to come out to the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall to protest against the invitation to Musharraf at 8 pm on Tuesday.
He said Musharraf had ordered a military operation in Baluchistan that saw thousands of Baluch, including women and children, killed in Baluchistan.
Baluch said Musharraf was in cahoots with the Taliban and Al Qaeda and recalled the general who actually put Musharraf into power, General Mehmud Ahmed of the infamous Inter Services Intelligence, had actually asked Taliban ruler Mullah Omar to fight against the United States.
There have been widespread reports in the media that money to the 911 terrorists was bankrolled under orders of General Ahmed
Musharraf has no roots in Pakistan but very strong roots in India where his mother was a famous dancer from Lucknow, a city known for its brothels since the Mogul era.
Other than killing of thousands of Baluch afer the Baluch leaders refused Pakistani authorities to explore for oil in their occupied territories, Musharraf had also imposed an emergency to prolong his rule and dismissed the chief justice of the highest court of his country.
Musharraf's long list of crimes include killing former member of the Baluchistan assembly, Nawabzada Bala'ach Marri.
On Tuesday, a daylong protest will be staged at the Owing Mills campus of the Stevenson University followed by protest at the Myerhoff Symphony Hall at 7 pm in the evening. The address is 1212 Cathedral St. Baltimore, MD 21201.
Baluch said it was shameful of institutes in the Free World to help promote dictators, who ruthlessly kill people, in their home countries.
Musharraf has been summoned by the Baluchistan High Court for the extra judicial killing of Nawab Bugti.





