You might have observed that countries on the world map endowed with natural wealth like oil, coal, gas, copper, gold, uranium, cobalt and other precious minerals in their territories often become targets of wars, terrorism, civil wars, economic sanctions, and global conspiracies. Ostensibly in the name of democracy, human rights, or eliminating terrorism, their political, economic, and social structures are turned upside down. However, the real driving force is that global greed to seize or control their resources, which persists in various forms even after the colonial era. This is termed in modern parlance as Neocolonialism or Corporate Imperialism.
Here, global financial institutions, arms manufacturers, multinational mining corporations and Western governments systematically weaken the sovereignty and decision-making of these nations under an organized system. Africa's Congo is its worst victim, where the wealth of cobalt, copper, and diamonds has fueled continuous civil war for the last four decades. According to the United Nations, over 70% of its natural resources are under the control of foreign companies. Regarding the 2003 US attack on Iraq, General Wesley Clark himself revealed that this decision was made under a secret plan post-9/11, aiming to destabilize seven countries within seven years, including Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Iran (in my personal analysis, Sri Lanka and Pakistan could also be among these seven countries).
The killing of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya was actually the result of this same plan, as he wanted to bring Africa to a unified currency (Gold Dinar) and conduct oil trade in gold instead of dollars. Civil war was fostered in Syria to block Russian influence and Iranian partnership.
NATO expansion post-2014 in Ukraine and interference in Russian gas pipelines in Eastern Europe created a nuclear flashpoint. Sanctions on Iran and the narrative of a "Nuclear Threat" are also linked to control over its oil and gas reserves. Meanwhile, in Pakistan, Balochistan, a region rich in natural resources, has also become a target of this global game due to instability, the strategic port of Gwadar catching the eye of global powers, and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. The presence of terrorist networks, political instability, and the negative propaganda by Israeli and Indian media are testament to the fact that a plan to weaken both its resources and geopolitical importance is also underway here.
I have always interpreted this system as an "undeclared capitalist war" where multinational companies, holding local governments hostage, influence not only resources but also their policy-making. Furthermore, John Perkin's book "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" clearly details how the World Bank, IMF, and US intelligence agencies ensnare leaders of developing countries through loans, contracts, or threats; and if they resist, their governments are toppled or they are eliminated. Thus, the crime of these nations in the world is not that they sponsor terrorism, but their fault is merely that they challenge this global economic structure which considers the plunder of resources its prerogative and possesses the capability to crush any resistance by labeling it terrorism or dictatorship.
Pakistan, specifically because of Balochistan, is also under the grip of these very global conspiracies and the barbarism of the capitalist system that afflicts all regions possessing immense natural resources but are internally weakened by political vulnerability, ethnic, linguistic, cultural divisions, and global proxy wars. Despite being Pakistan's largest province, Balochistan's land and resources have become a burden for its inhabitants because the presence of gold, copper, chromite, coal, nickel, gas, and precious minerals here has made it the focus of the global establishment.
Projects like Reko Diq and Saindak, whose total worth is estimated globally at hundreds of billions of dollars, are being pressured into the hands of foreign consortia that neglect local partnership or welfare and only promote material exploitations, and when voices are raised locally against this exploitation, it is framed as a confrontation between groups like the BLA and BYC and the state. The duty of beating the drum of missing persons and public rights is assigned to imperialist media. Then, governments are pressured by saying human rights violations are occurring, so either comply with our demands or prepare for sanctions. This is the very oppression faced by countries like Pakistan, whose roots are connected to the global economic system itself, where foreign intelligence agencies interference is sometimes noted in Baloch movements, aiming to destabilize the region and sabotage CPEC projects like Gwadar Port.
Gwadar, which could become a hub for the global trade network due to its geographical proximity to China and access to the Indian Ocean, is being kept dysfunctional by deliberately maintaining local insecurity, poverty, lack of infrastructure, and instability under a plan. In many areas of Balochistan, educational institutions, hospitals, clean water, and roads are absent, yet a project like Reko Diq has been extracting valuable treasures from underground for decades. In this context, if the separatist movements there are examined in depth, they too, somewhere, stem from this economic terrorism and are born from this same sense of deprivation which global powers mold into an agenda, sometimes through proxies, sometimes through funding, and sometimes through media.
In my book "Metal and Blood" (The Untold Story of Balochistan), I have narrated this entire saga in full detail: that until foreign interference by countries and corporations in Balochistan ceases, internal contradictions will continue to be created, and these artificial, orchestrated contradictions will be exploited by external powers for their interests. Balochistan has become a practical example of this theory. Human rights violations here, the issue of missing persons, and sometimes the state's response and tribal divisions have become part of this imperial chess game, whose aim is neither the freedom nor the development of the Baloch people, but rather the domination of resources deemed indispensable for the global system.
The clearest example of this is that whenever local people or political leadership raise questions about projects like Reko Diq or Gwadar, the state is forced through international courts, fines, or the name of "contract violation" to renegotiate with those same companies that have already played an exploitative role. Thus, Balochistan too stands in the same line as Congo, Libya, Iraq, and Iran, where resources become a calamity instead of a blessing, and where the imperial economy continuously crushes dreams of freedom.
