London: April 28, 2015. (By Ahmar Mustikhan) Baloch Diaspora activists in London and elswhere in the West, like their compatriots in Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan and the Gulf countries are incensed by what they call Sino-Punjab schemes to build a naval base in Gwadar and change the historic political identity of France-sized Balochistan by ethnic flooding. Activists from different political backgrounds have been organizing rallies in London (see picture of a past rally). At these rallies, Baloch protesters chant slogans against China and Pakistan's deep state, incuding the ISI, Military Inteligence and Pakistan army, who are engaged in military operations in many cities across Balochistan. Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is also the general secretary of the Communist Party of China, was in Islamabad last week and signed 50 MoUs, worth nearly $50 billion, with mostly Punjabi rulers. The Chinese plan to link Kashgar with Gwadar, located in the strategically sexy Hormuz region, with rail and road. President Xi was also expected to go unannounced to Gwadar, to inaugurate the port, but was stopped in his tracks by the Baloch saramchars or freedom fighters who are demanding independence for Balochistan and are engaged in a David-and-Goliath struggle against the Pakistani occupation forces. April 21 was the day President Xi was to visit Gwadar, but Baloch Republican Army guerrillas blew up the radar system at Pasni airport, while other Baloch sarmachars or freedom fighters also killed two personnel of the Pakistani security forces in Gwadar city itself. Baloch nationalists say China's has hegemonic and expansionist designs in Balochistan to reach the Hormuz warm waters in the Arabian or Persian Gulf, which many Baloch call the Baloch Gulf. As the dollar-hungry Pakistan generals see the glitter of $50 billion, they have further upped the military aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Balochistan in blatant violation of the Rome Statute and Geneva Conventions. On Friday, Karachi’s popular human rights defender Sabeen Mahmud, who had the temerity to organize a panel discussion “Unsilencing Balochistan,” focusing on enforced disappearances in Balochistan was shot dead minutes after the event. “The Xi dream means the security part will need to be done on a grander scale to match the economy bit,” Pakistan’s well-known columnist Cyril Almeida wrote in an opinion piece “Blood and Balochistan” in Dawn newspaper Sunday. Pakistan has announced formation of a special division comprising nine battalions an six wing of the air force and civilian armed forces to crush any opposition to the Kahsgar-Gwadar link. London is one of the main hubs of Baloch international activism, marred sometimes by unnecessary bickerings and endless polemics. The British capital is home to leading Baloch politicans like former communications and works minister Hyrbyair Marri, former senator Mir Javed Mengal and former provincial assembly member Mir Bakhtiar Domki. All three have lost close close family relatives to the military brutalities in Balochistan. A number of leading Baloch intellectuals also live in the UK capital.