‘Of the millions who live in Balochistan, 40 dead in Mastung is not a big deal. I will send a truckload of tissue papers to the bereaved families. I’d send tobacco if I weren’t a politician.’
Chief Minister Balochistan, Aslam Raisani, instead of making condolence with grieved Shia families who have lost their breadwinners in a [...]
Pakistan is a country which is rich in natural resources. Almost all kinds of resources which can be used to produce energy are in sufficient amount. The province of Balouchistan specially has big oil and gas reserves. There are ample resources to produce thermal, hydro, solar, wind and nuclear energy. The question is why we [...]
Balochistan is the biggest province of Pakistan in terms of size. There is huge unrest in Balochistan right now due to the military operation and the high-handedness of the Frontier Constabulary. Another reason of unrest is the the way successive governments in the Islamabad have ignored Balochistan and its people and have kept it backwards. [...]
Many international pundits are now predicting with certainty that these are insurmountable times for the Pakistan and as the writ of the Pakistani government vanishes in the thin air from Karachi to Khyber, there is every chance that any cataclysmic change would happen not later than this year.
Now that is a gloomy picture and one [...]
Some facts are bare; some obscure or in the realm of conjectures.
That the United States wants to eliminate the safe havens of Al-Qaeda and its allies from Pakistani territory is very much clear; what is not manifest is the American agenda for Pakistan in the context of the new ‘Great Game’ that is being played [...]
Landscape of Baluchistan has absorbing peculiarities. Province is spread over more than 45 percent of Pakistan’s total area, and is inhabited y by less than 5 percent of Pakistan’s population. Roughly half of the population is ethnic Baluch; remaining half comprises Pukhtuns and settlers from other provinces. Means to travel are meagre, deficient infrastructure distorts [...]
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 [...]
The onslaught of the raging power crisis has washed away all the barriers coming in its way and still retaining all of its ferocity kept hitting the routine life and the economy unleashing unemployment, Geo News reported Wednesday.
The irony of the state speaks itself out in Chaman where there is a [...]
Another heretical firqa is emerging fast in the hinterlands of Balochistan. They are called Zikris. They are quite old and their numbers are increasing in the ignorant and backwards areas if Lasbela, Gwadar and Turbat. They are also present in Karachi and Quetta and increasing their presence in the interior Sindh.
They are keeping a low [...]
Terrorism, this word has gained so much popularity in the recent years that it might just become a ‘Drawing room’ discussion subject. I remember a humor critic suggesting that in Pakistan everybody can talk on two things; Politics and Cricket. In the new millennium, we may need to add to this list. In Pakistan everyone [...]
