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A Baloch Perspective on the Problem Malik Siraj Akbar's new book helps approach the issue in new ways, but stops short of outlining solutions or giving framework under which the Baloch liberation could take place  Balochistan is an important but complicated issue. The stability...

Provincial negligence: No relief for Balochistan's victims The government has not yet established a relief camp for flood victims in Balochistan, where hundreds of villages were washed away last month. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has not sent a team to help out...

Baluchistan: Pakistan's other war Last Tuesday afternoon, I spoke to a Dawn reporter who hadn't been able to eat breakfast that day because there is no wood-fired stove in his house. He hadn't had a cup of tea or been able to take a shower, and had no heating in below-freezing temperatures...

What’s Balochistan Got To Do With It? It’s not the Pakistani Army but the Baloch nationalists it suppresses that may be the most effective counter to politically motivated religious extremism. Balochistan is largely a stunningly beautiful desert. Obama’s publicised 30,000 troop increase...

Balochistan: Pakistan's broken mirror Baloch children hold up nationalist posters. Islamabad's brutal attempts to crush ethnic Baloch nationalism have met with fierce, escalating resistance - and have laid bare the strains that threaten the founding idea of Pakistan. Madiha R Tahir...

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Pakistan's Other Problem Area: Baluchistan When the world looks at Pakistan, its attention justifiably focuses on the rugged northern border with Afghanistan, a nexus of Taliban activity and the site of an ongoing multi-pronged campaign against the militants. Battling jihadism there is a...

Balochistan ignored Losing faith in a government is one thing. In working democracies this lack of trust is expressed through the ballot box and change can be sought through peaceful means. In short, there is nothing inherently alarming about a change in government. But losing trust in the...

Another Baloch nationalist leader dies mysteriously Another Baloch nationalist leader has died mysteriously. Mureed Bugti, a close aide of Brahamdagh Bugti and a member of the Central Executive Committee of the fiercely nationalist Baloch Republican Party, was killed, along with his host, at...

Needless accusations ‘Startled’ is the word used by this paper’s reporter to describe the reaction of senators on Wednesday when they were briefed on Balochistan by the PM’s interior adviser. Was Rehman Malik’s argument a throwback to the old days when it was easy for the state to justify...

Afghanistan and India behind BLA: Malik ISLAMABAD: The prime minister’s adviser on interior affairs surprised the Senate on Wednesday when he directly accused Afghanistan and India of supporting the Baloch National Army’s campaign for Balochistan’s secession from Pakistan and also implicated...