Guest Column by Dr. Wahid Baloch
(The views expressed are his own)
(Text of Speech give at the National Press Club, Washington DC on 15th August, 2008)
Balochistan is a Texas sized region, divided among Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. The Iranian portion was given to Iran by British rulers in 1928 as part of the British forward policy to serve as a buffer between its imperial possessions in India with the Russian communist empire.