DAWN
by Syed Shoaib Hasan
A Pakistani rescue worker is seen through the bullet-riddled window of a passenger train following an attack by unknown gunmen in Mach near Quetta.—AP Photo Read more »
DAWN
by Syed Shoaib Hasan
A Pakistani rescue worker is seen through the bullet-riddled window of a passenger train following an attack by unknown gunmen in Mach near Quetta.—AP Photo Read more »
ZULFIKAR LANGAU was 17 when he ran away “to the mountains”, a euphemism for joining independence-seeking insurgents in Balochistan, a vast, thinly populated province of deserts and mountains in the west of Pakistan. Read more »
Do you know that:
In 2000, there were 14 bomb blasts in Pakistan; 5 in Punjab, 4 in Sindh, 3 in Balochistan, and one each in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (KPK) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in which a total of 79 people died; 55 in Punjab and Sindh, 18 in Baluchistan, 5 in FATA and only one in the KPK. Read more »
The military establishment and its supporters as well as the PPP government’s interior minister Rehman Malik accuse “foreign powers” of fomenting trouble in Balochistan. Rehman Malik told Pakistan Senate on Feb. 9 that some external powers were conspiring to detach Balochistan from Pakistan. Read more »
“A glance at the map quickly explains why strategically located Balochistan and the five million Baloch tribesmen who live there could easily become the focal point of superpower conflict.”
Selig S. Harrison in “In Afghanistan’s Shadow”, published in 1981. Read more »
The latest column of Eric Margolis is a must read:
Eric S. Margolis is an award-winning, internationally syndicated columnist. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Times of London, the Gulf Times, the Khaleej Times and other news sites in Asia. He is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, Lew Rockwell and Big Eye. Read more »
Please click here to read the original full report by Relief International
The last week of July 2010, heavy rains caused extensive flooding in most parts of Balochistan Province. On August 2, the Relief International (RI) field team assessed five districts in Balochistan to determine emergency needs and priorities. RI’s field team found that the most vulnerable populations at present are elders and children. Most of the population in the flood-affected areas have left their villages due to fear of additional flooding and are seeking shelter elsewhere as remaining standing water is making temporary shelter near their homes impossible. Read more »
On assuming office, President Obama shifted US military action from Iraq to Afghanistan and then, more squarely, to Pakistan, where he claimed the terrorists responsible for 911 were hiding. In doing so, he tacitly acknowledged the nefarious character of the rationales of the Bush administration in invading Iraq, rationales that are now widely accepted as being cynical fabrications to wage a war that was planned well before the Trade Towers were destroyed. Read more »