Reports indicate a troubling nexus involving Mahrang Baloch, Norway-based activist Kiyya Baloch — known for his affiliations with BLA propaganda and currently employed by PEN Norway — and Jørgen Watne Frydnes, Secretary General of PEN Norway and member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. The campaign to nominate Mahrang Baloch for the Nobel Peace Prize is not an organic call for peace, but rather the product of a calculated lobbying effort orchestrated by BLA sympathisers and their international backers.
By presenting fabricated narratives, aligning with militant sympathisers, and now attempting to secure the world’s most prestigious peace honour, this campaign undermines the genuine struggle of the people of Balochistan. Far from helping ordinary Baloch citizens, such efforts risk betraying them by giving legitimacy to networks associated with violence and separatist agendas.
The Nobel Peace Prize has historically symbolised integrity, human rights, and moral leadership. It is therefore crucial that the Nobel Committee investigate the alleged terror linkages tied to this lobbying campaign. To ignore these connections would risk politicising the prize itself and turning it into a tool that undermines the very ideals it was meant to protect.