Some American women felt she was not appropriately dressed for a presentation at one of the world's most respected parliaments.
She called a man of sincerety, loved by 15 million Baloch, a true American patriot who put his life on line for the USA a nut case -- Lt. Col (retd.) Ralph Peters.
She even termed a key congressional hearing, the first of its kind in U.S. history, a political stunt. Her students must ask her, if that was the case why did she become a party to it?
Meet C. Christine Fair -- formerly of RAND, now an assistant professor at the Georgetown University.
Prof. Fair knows nothing about Balochistan and neither is she concerned over the genocide and the secret dirty war that the Baloch people are faced with.
Just a few weeks ago, she was sent out an invitation for an event that is scheduled to take place in Washington DC this summer -- six months away. "I am busy, I don't have time," she said in Urdu.
But some of her recommendations must be rejected by the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee of House Committee on Foreign Affairs as totally unfair towards a people suffering fullscale genocide..
One of her recommendations that deserves to be condemned to the waste basket reads:
"However, while Balochistan is strategically important to the United States (as well as Iran and Afghanistan and even India), what is happening within the province is largely a Pakistani internal affair."
She further adds, "Given the ethnic diversity of the province, its complicated history, and the existing geographic constraints, an independent Balochistan is untenable and proposals on this point will not be entertained by this author."
Since Balochistan is an occupied territory invaded and annexed at gun point March 27, 1948 it was never an internal matter of Pakistan. Add to it the extrajudicial killings, the torture, execution-style killings, arbitrary detentions and at least 1,400 Baloch victims of enforced disappearances, the issue of Balochistan belongs to the United Nations.
Jane E. Weisner, a liberal American from Amherst, Mass., and general secretary of the American Friends of Balochistan agreed Fair was dressed inappropriately. "I think her attire was on purpose to show her disrespect for the committee," Weisner observed.
Small wonder if the Afghans and the Baloch youths call her "Prof. Unfair."
Please click on the links below to read the complete presentations of the five panelists:
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