Today Baluchistan is no doubt burning thanks to ill-perceived policies by security establishment over the years. Unfortunately the men at the helm of affairs in our country have not learned lessons from history. The current security situation in parts of Baluchistan is not very much different from what those of former East Pakistan in late [...]
When President Obama explained his decision to send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan to support General Stanley McChrystal’s new counterinsurgency campaign, he left a key question unanswered: Will this be enough to achieve U.S. strategic ends in Af-Pak?
U.S. military counterinsurgency doctrine calls for a security force ratio of 20 to 25 counterinsurgents for every [...]
The myth of Quetta shura has been on a verge of its hype in the horizon of Pakistan U.S relations yet again, previously it was Karzai in 2006 who was claiming it and now “master” himself has shown same alarming concerns, U.S is looking beyond Afghanistan for the reasons and excuses for her massive strategic [...]
It is an old article By Massoud Ansari but still great deal of relavence with Today’s Baluchistan. Akbar Bugti was killed with out a trial at the orders of General Musharaf, would Supreme Court of Pakistan be keen to look in to this. Regardless of the fact that what we think of Akbar Bugti, its a basic right [...]
The so-called Balochistan Republican Army is part of a list of three or four terrorist groups that do not really exist on the ground but are the joint creation of CIA and Indian intelligence in Afghanistan. Karzai’s intelligence units act as their facilitator. In Baluchistan the anti Pakistan subversive operation is headed by a traitor [...]
Pakistan’s Foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi in a recent joint press conference with the special envoy to the region, Richard C. Holbrooke and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen at his side, said: “We did talk about drones, and let me be very frank: there is a gap between us.” [...]
28 May, 1998: Pakistan successfully tested its nuclear weapons at Chaghi hills in Baluchistan. The government promised the necessary follow-up measures for the people of the area to avoid any after-effects but did not fulfill the promise and hundreds, if not thousands, are known to be suffering for the effects of the nukes.
Was having [...]
Uninhabited deserts, barren land and an under-developed region going through insurgency for long – this is what I knew about Baluchistan before setting my foot there. There has been a curiosity somewhere inside me to know the details but it never grew strong enough to make a trip to the province. A few of us [...]
