Baloch Malyali leader unveils tell-all memoirs

An India born Malyali, BM Kutty, who went to play a lead role in the politics of Balochistan — Pakistan's troubled province of ethnic Balochis — unveiled an autobiography at a gathering of dignitaries, among them Pakistan's high commissioner Shahid Malik. HT reports.

An India born Malyali, BM Kutty, who went to play a lead role in the politics of Balochistan — Pakistan's troubled province of ethnic Balochis — unveiled an autobiography at a gathering of dignitaries, among them Pakistan's high commissioner Shahid Malik.

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Baloch nationalists have long campaigned for autonomy and control of local resources. An armed insurgency is demanding outright independence.

Kutty's memoirs, Sixty Years in Self-Exile: No Regrets, was inaugurated by former external affairs minister K Natwar Singh. The book traces Kutty's migration from Calicut, where he was a Communist, to Balochistan.