Zarain Magsi Baloch

To the diaspora accounts flooding his replies with hate: you do not live in Jhal Magsi. He does. Nawabzada Mir Zarain Khan Magsi is Baloch. Schooled at The American School in Switzerland, a bachelor’s in International Politics and Philosophy from the University of San Francisco, a master’s in Public Policy and Political Economy from the University of Sydney. He is not a doctor from BMC selling a war from a placard. He knows what keeps his people alive, and he is doing it. Homes were entered. People were taken. A checkpoint was hit. The Magsi jirga raised an Aman force. On 2 October he called defending the land, the lives and the property of his people a resolve, a duty and a matter of honour. Your tweets do not undo that. This is older than your handles. In the late 1820's Nawab Ahmed Khan Magsi rode out with his lashkar, took back what had been seized from people under his charge, and held Jhal when a far larger outside force came to sack it. The tribe that stood then is standing now. Bashir Zaib and his kind do not get Jhal Magsi. You are not its custodians from abroad. The hate is the sound of a script breaking. The ground has already answered.