LONDON/WASHINGTON: A prominent Baloch activist has claimed that he heckledformer Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during his speech in October2015 in Washington at the behest of Indian intelligence agency Research andAnalysis Wing (RAW).
Ahmer Mustikhan, a senior journalist from Balochistan who has worked innewsrooms in Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, and the United States and isnow based in the US capital, has released three video statements in whichhe claims he was “let down” by RAW operatives working from the Indianembassy in Washington. He named one of the RAW operatives as NageshBhushan, saying he worked on the Indian spy agency’s Balochistan Desk.
On October 22, 2015, Ahmer Mustikhan had heckled Pakistan’s visiting primeminister during his speech at the United States Institute for Peace (USIP)for many minutes before he was whisked out of the room by securitypersonnel. Indian news channels used the heckling incident to run news andtalk shows, featuring Ahmer Mustikhan and his views.
Mustikhan now claims the Indian spy agency had asked him to hecklethen-prime minister Sharif and embarrass him by bringing up the issue ofBalochistan during the event.
Mustikhan says in a series of videos that he “was promised huge help bythose who were interested in the heckling of Nawaz Sharif. None of thosepromises were ever fulfilled. There was this gentleman in the Indianembassy who left (for India) in January and never fulfilled his promise.There were other things that happened too,” said Mustikhan in his broadcast.
During the same visit when Sharif addressed the General Debate of theUnited Nations General Assembly, Mustikhan led a protest against Pakistanoutside the venue for an organisation called “Free Balochistan CampaignUSA” and accused the Pakistani premier of being involved in human rightsviolations in Balochistan and supporting Bin Laden.
Mustikhan said in the first video that he been a long-standing friend ofIndia and openly sang “Jeeay Hind, Banday Mahatram and Long Live India”,but his heart has been broken and that he was let down by RAW operatives.
He alleged in the video that RAW had given three Baloch militant groups $15million each in the last few years.