Intelligence Bureau Received Plea of Brahamdagh Bugti for Political Asylum in India

BENGALURU: The Narendra Modi government will be reviewing the plea of Baloch separatist leader Brahamdagh Bugti for getting political asylum in India. Now his application is forwarded to intelligence agencies for security review. As reported by The Times of India, Bugti currently living in Geneva applied to the Government of India for getting political asylum.

An official from home ministry of India said that, after examining Bugti’s application, the government has sent it to the intelligence bureau for in-depth review. Intelligence bureau will now examine all security clearances and it is expected that they will submit a report within a week. After getting report from the security agencies, it will be discussed by the cabinet.

India currently has no policy to provide political asylums therefore after all security clearances cabinet will make a final call. The Union home ministry is in favor of providing Bugti a long-term visa as given to the Bangladeshi author, Taslima Nasreen. In 1959, Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama and some of his followers got political asylum in India, which was provided by the former PM Jawaharlal Nehru.

Brahamdagh Bugti is the separatist leader of Baluchistan, who is in an exile since 2006 when Pakistani army killed his father and tried to capture him. Till 2010, he stayed in Afghanistan and later shifted to Geneva, Switzerland. Last week, he applied for asylum in India at the Indian embassy Geneva. Later, the ministry of external affairs received his application and sent it to the home ministry.

According to a report by the UN, in India, there are about 6,500 asylum seekers, but Indian government doesn’t recognize any of them. The officials are now digging records of 1959 to examine the asylum granting process in India. The term ‘refugee’ is not even mentioned in any Indian law. India refused to sign the 1951 convention proposed by the UN on the status of refugees and a 1967 protocol that specifies the services and rights a host country must provide to the refugees.

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