Niraj has a set of links to articles by B.Raman which will help in understanding why the Balochis hate the Pakistan Govt. From reading those articles it looks like another East Pakistan in the making. While major construction is going on for the Gwadar Port in Balochistan, the Balochis are kept away from the jobs and in their place Punjabis and Pashtuns whose loyalty were not suspect were moved in.
The Army is also building cantonments in Balochistan which the Balochis do not see favourably.

Under US pressure to restore law and order in Baluchistabn, Musharraf, with financial assistance from the US Central Command, has embarked upon a plan for the construction of three more cantonments in Baluchistan at Dera Bugti, Kohlu and Gwadar. Though these cantonments have been projected by the Pakistan Army as meant to enable the Army deal more effectively with the dregs of the IIF, the Baluch nationalists fear that Musharraf has been exploiting the US concerns to get money for strengthening the Army presence in the province to enable him to crush the nationalists at an opportune moment.[Unrest In Baluchistan]

Both the opposition and treasury senators are of the opinion that the cantonments are being built to supress the nationalists, while Musharraf thinks that it is absolutely necessary.
Due to their treatment as second class citizens, the Balochis are revolting and the Army is moving in to supress the revolt. But then there are contradicting reports coming about the military action. Now there is a new report

A tribal leader in the restive Baluchistan has accused Pakistan army of using tanks and helicopter gunships to quell “agitation against outsiders.” This contradicts official versions that no military operation was held in the province. Prominent Baluch tribal leader, Nawab Mohammad Akbar Khan Bugti, who heads the Jamhoori Watan Party, told reporters in Pakistan’s Hyderabad on Thursday that a number of areas in the province were devastated due to attacks by rockets, missiles and heavy bombing. Tanks, gunships, helicopters, army and para-military forces were being used right from Turbat to Gwadar in Baluchistan, Bugti was quoted as saying by the local media.[Tribal leader accuses Pak of using tanks, choppers]

Now that Shaukat Aziz as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, SA Tribune thinks that Musharraf is dispensible.

Musharraf has completed five years of his rule and at the end of that period he is today almost living under house arrest, confined to a bunker. He cannot come out into the public. If he has to go anywhere, the entire city has to come to a standstill. In the last few weeks he has not ventured out of the Presidency, not even for any Independence Day event.

He does not trust even his own top Generals. Within his Army he is seen as a COAS who has blocked the careers of those on top and has promoted and picked men of his choice causing a lot of heart burning elsewhere. He is hated by the terrorists, despised by politicians, of both the Opposition and the Treasury benches, though they may not have the courage to say so at his face.

The ordinary man on the street never trusted him before and distrusts him more now as life for him has gone from bad to worse, despite all the tall claims of macroeconomic successes and dollar reserves. Voters did not come out in his phony referendum and they never voted for any one because of Musharraf. Without the heavy hand of intelligence agencies and official machinery, even Shaukat Aziz would not have agreed to contest, let alone win, the Parliamentary seats he easily won today.[via oxTalk]

Shaukatz Aziz is no politician. He is not from the military either. In Pakistan, politicians do not matter anyway. But unless you have the trust of the army, you cannot last that long. It will be interesting to see how the new PM handles the Jihadis, the Americans on the Western border and the Indians on the Eastern border.

An election year in US means a bad time for terrorists in Pakistan. Already there were reports coming out that the Bush Administration is putting lot of pressure on our greatest ally to capture some High Value Targets. Our ally is doing exactly that while denying everything in the local press.

The opposition in Pakistan says Islamabad is bending too far backward to obey the election-related fiats coming from the United States. They accuse President Pervez Musharraf of making war against his own people on the orders of George Bush. No one believes the government