The Community Relations Commission held a seminar a few weeks ago at UTS, entitled ‘Maintaining a Resilient Community’. It was designed for ‘Muslim religious workers and community leaders’ to allay fears that counter-terrorism legislation unfairly targets Muslims.
Recently, some senior American politicians have initiated efforts to support the separation of Baluchistan from Pakistan. Californian Republican, Dana Rohrabacher is leading the campaign for Pakistan's dismemberment, and he has been joined in this crusade by fellow Republican Congressmen Louie Gohmert and Steve King. On February 18, 2012, the three Republican politicians tabled a bill before congress that states that Baluchistan is currently divided between Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan with no sovereign rights of its own, the resolution explains that "in Pakistan especially, the Baluchi people are subjected to violence and extrajudicial killing," and therefore, the Baluchi people "have the right to self-determination and to their own sovereign country; and they should be afforded the opportunity to choose their own status."