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Princely Liaisons: The Khan family controls politics in Kalat
Loyalty carries weight when it comes to politics in Balochistan. The upcoming general elections will see two members of the former princely state of Kalat contesting for as many Balochistan Assembly seats. Prince Agha Irfan Karim and Prince...
Baluchistan Tribal System
The social organization of the Balochis is based on blood kinship. Different groups of people mostly descend from a common ancestor. Members of each group share common interests and liabilities. This has made clan organization the basis of Baloch...
Balochistan crisis: Zehri-Mengal feud puts PML-N in a quandary
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) central leadership finds itself in a fix after its Balochistan chapter president Sardar Sanaullah Zehri lodged an FIR against Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) chief over the murder of his...
Attack on Zehri convoy; Baloch separatists out to sabotage elections
Not only Taliban of TTP but the Baloch separatists are out to sabotage the coming elections. Their tactic is very simple; kill and harass those taking part in the polls and latest target of their brutality is PML (N) candidate Mir Sanaullah...
Footprints of India in Balochistan & Karachi
Asif Haroon Raja
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had nurtured the dream of independent Bengal from early days. He and his henchmen got in touch with Indian intelligence agencies and during one of the meetings in Agartala in November 1963, finalized the...
Balochistan: Where should we go from here?
Ali Ashraf Khan
Thursday, January 17, 2013 – Balochistan is the west-most province of Pakistan. It is the largest province with regard to the territory it consists of but the smallest with regard to the number of its population. Balochistan...
Saving Balochistan by Mohammad Malick
Mohammad Malick
Balochistan is a land blessed by nature but ravaged by the emphatic greed and criminal empathy of man. With its natural resources worth hundreds of billions of dollars it ranks amongst the world’s potentially richest regions,...
Is Baluchistan the next Bangladesh?
There comes a time in history when new beginnings get started with words from a new icon giving inspiration for freedom thousands of miles away. Barack Obama is the new icon accelerating the the new change that is coming to the history of the...
Balochistan at a standstill
The ‘supreme authority’ in Pakistan appears less enthralled to implement the repeated orders of the Supreme Court regarding the atrocious situation in Balochistan. After 71 hearings and countless interim orders by the Court, the situation...
A Few Words : The UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances — Dr Qaisar Rashid
The issue of the missing Baloch is serious because it is promoting ethnic discontent in Pakistan. In a way, the issue is a product of policy failure
Baloch In Iran A National Question
8 Baloch political prisoners have been sentences to death. According to “Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran” [1] they risk imminent execution.
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Balochistan under global conspiracies
Robert D. Kaplan writes about the Balochistan province of Pakistan as, “One key to its fate is the future of Gwadar, a strategic port whose development will either unlock the riches of Central Asia, or plunge Pakistan into a savage, and potentially...
Balochistan and the upcoming elections
The Baloch nationalists are debating among themselves whether or not to participate in the upcoming general elections. So, is Balochistan’s political landscape going to change if the nationalists return to parliament? All nationalists are...
Stories from Balochistan
By Intizar Husain
BEFORE me is a collection of short stories titled Injeer Kai Phool. I have just finished reading it and am in a state of shock. They are all sad stories about people who are doomed, with a deeply pessimistic mood running...
Happy Independence Day, Balochistan!
Actually, not so happy–Basque journalist Karlos Zurutuza explains why in his newest dispatch from the stormy province in western Pakistan.
Zurutuza had to sneak into Balochistan, because Pakistan does not allow journalists in there without...