With India raising the issue of human rights violations in Balochistan at the UN, and openly coming out in support of the Baloch people, Pakistan's special envoy on Kashmir, Mushahid Husain Syed has warned that if India continued to do so, Pakistan would respond by "talking of Khalistan, Nagaland, Tripura, Assam, Sikkim or the Maoist insurgency. "We do not want to do that because that is interference in the internal affairs of a neighboring country. You are changing the rules of the game. It becomes tit for tat," he said. First, Syed 'threatened' that his country could move closer to Russia and China if Washington fails to intervene in Kashmir.

But ever since PM Modi raised the issue in his Independence Day speech Pakistan has gone on an all out offensive to counter it.

The news about likely asylum for Baloch Republican Party Chief Brahamdagh Bugti in India, who Pakistan consider as a terrorist has made Islamabad once again see red in the complex geopolitical chess game.