Dr. Naseer Dashti book inauguration in London,

It has been said that differences between civilised people and uncivilised people are that the civilised people have a history and uncivilised people do not have a history.
 

It is also a fact that the spoken languages have been around for millenniums people always communicated with one another they always have name for their languages and the group spoken that language but not all languages became script languages at once.

 The languages became scripted one after another.

Nations, tribes’ languages and transfers of experience and knowledge started long before written languages. Human history and transfer of knowledge from generation to generation started long before people could read and write.

 History books others nations have written about themselves and the others are constructed to serve their national building and state building, to hold other-wise diverse ethnics and nations together in one state.

Standardised history is a product of modernity and quest for the national self-determination.   

People have always enquired where they as a group came from. Present is built on the past; the roots hold the tree to the ground and history give a sense of identity to a nation and connect the people’s present to the past. The history connect us with times, places, event and record the people successes and failures.

Human being always interested in their past and believes in share originality and share past, history some times united group for common purposes.

Dr Dashti in his book The Baluch and Baluchistan try to answer some questions. It is important to know about ones past in order to evaluate one present and plan for ones future. One always learns from the past mistakes as well as successes.

A Nation some times faced with a crisis, it is difficult to predict future without knowing the past. Recorded history in a form of a book at the age of digital is important. Every nation has started to record their history at one point at the time.

Dr Dashti help us to understand events of the past, he construct from the history of past otherwise that is difficult for some of us to visualize without help from historian.  He translates the past to present.

Without common standard believes it is very difficult to unite a nation. A common interest of the people has never been enough to hold people together. 

A standard history is a one polar of state and state building. Revitalisation of history is very important Dashti with its painstaking work has provided good source for the Baluch nation to be proud of themselves and learn from their past mistakes as well as their successes.

Dr Naseer  Dashti is a Baluch scholar with a good knowledge of Baluch history and legends.  He has researched primary sources. He has access to the Baluch legends and verbal history and other documents that have not been published yet in any shape or form.

 Dr Dashti has brought back into the light the hidden world, the Baluch world, the files of Baluch history lying under the libraries dust.

 The Baluch national history has long been forgotten by the world and Baluch themselves.   The culture has been eroded and Baluch are slowly becoming assimilated into these new states. Dr Dashti has answered some questions for those who are seeking answers.

We thank Dr Dashti for bringing historical credibility to the Baluch nation and just demand for national sovereignty and independence.  Baluch history has long been passed down as legends and folk songs from generation to generation.  Dr Dashti has added credibility to Baluch history in his painstaking research.

Thank you very much Dr Naseer Dashti, you served your nation well.

Mehrab. Sarjov is apolitical activisted based in London.