Though Pakistan is fuming, Baloch all over the world are joyous that the USS Enterpise is close to the territorial waters of Balochistan near the port city of Gwadar.
These Baloch are appealing to Balochistan leaders to come out openly and publicly in support of the U.S. carrier.
Most Baloch accuse Pakistan of ethnic cleansing and loot and plunder and say if they remain with Pakistan they will be big time losers and live in poverty even though Balochistan is as rich as Switzerland, according to Pakistan writer Fatima Bhutto, grand daughter of slain premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
The USS Enterprise moved close to Balochistan's territorial waters -- which Islamabad claims belongs to Pakistan, but the Baloch reject this as false -- exactly one week after Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said U.S. patience with Pakistan is running out.
A U.S. team negotiating the restoring of NATO supply routes was also abruptly called back few days ago.
Most Baloch leaders, including Geneva-based Sardar Brahumdagh Bugti of the Baloch Repulican Party, are miffed why the U.S. is talking to Pakistan on these routes in stead of the Baloch.
The premier American Friends of Balochistan called upon its members and supporters in the U.S. and abroad to distribute sweets over the development-- a traditional way of showing mass gratitude and happiness.
The number at Pentagon to call is +1 (703) 571-3343.
A number of key political activists from Gwadar, including Mehboob Wadela, Comrade Qayyum and Hameed Hayatan, were forcibly abducted, tortured and killed execution style killed by Pakistan's Frontier Corps and intelligence services.
However, some Baloch leaders -- after seeing what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan, where trigger happy American troops killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians --, say the U.S. troops should never land on Balochistan soil.
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