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Posts Tagged ‘Baloch’

Is Pakistan a Natural State?

By Malik Achakzai • Jan 18th, 2012 • Category: Politics

On daily basis facts, figures, information, news, features, articles, interviews, commentaries and analysis are daily printed, broadcasted about the war on terror, start of terrorism, complexity, evolution of terrorism in last decade, but we the people the area having a sketch according to our own perspective.
What’s the history of Afghanistan and Pakistan?
Afghanistan: the written history [...]



Baloch leader asks Vice President Joe Biden to intervene

By A Khokar • Jul 2nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

WASHINGTON, DC: (June 25, 2010) On the eve of United Nation’s International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the president of Baloch Society of North America (BSO-NA), Dr. Wahid Baloch, met with Vice-President Joe Biden to draw his attention to the gross human right violations, ongoing military operation and enforced involuntary disappearances in Pakistani [...]



18th Amendment, A Unique Example of Renunciation

By Shanzeh Iqbal • Apr 11th, 2010 • Category: Politics

A rare show of unanimity was witnessed when the 18th Amendment Bill was passed by the National Assembly with 292 votes. No doubt it is a great victory. It reflects the philosophy of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. The country is reaping the harvest of the policy of reconciliation. The 18th Amendment Bill would restore the [...]



The Golden American Biscuits and SWAT - The Heaven of the Eternally Displaced Undead Souls. Eternally..??

By Kaptain Mirza • Oct 3rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Let’s wander down the lanes of Kashmir which rocked to the tunes of the reverberating and scared mountains, whilst beneath them the earth was angered. Angered and filled with transgressions unpardonable.
Come October 8th and the fate of Kashmiris on this side was sealed away into ignoble and oblivious history. The 3 million displaced Pakistani Kashmiris, [...]



Pakistan: The Crisis of Society and State

By amicus • Jun 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

“The failed state”, “the rogue state”, “the epicenter of international terrorism” and “the most dangerous place in the world” are some of the epithets being used for the Pakistani state.
Suffering from deep malaise, the presently the Pakistani society is characterized by multiplicity of fissures. Its components – individuals and groups – are fast losing sense [...]



10 Questions for any Baloch

By Jasmine Rafique • Apr 18th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Millions of dollars were paid in Royalty to BUGTIs and other Baloch Nawabs… What have they done for their Baloch Qaum?
1. How much money they received?
2. How much they spent on Baloch people?
3. How much they spent on Baloch Education?
4. How much they spent on Job Creation?
5. How much they spent on Industrialization of Balochistan?
6. [...]