The media and the judiciary keep concentrating on non-issues but turn a blind eye to brutalities and human rights violations by state-run agencies.
Baluchistan is a deadly province for correspondents, where state and non-state actors violently interfere in journalists' professional work, with the aim of controlling how they and their enemies are portrayed in the media.
Baluchistan is a deadly province for correspondents, where state and non-state actors violently interfere in journalists' professional work, with the aim of controlling how they and their enemies are portrayed in the media.
The Baloch people are caught in the cross-fire of Pakistani subjugation, Talibanisation and the West's so-called "˜war on terror'.
There has been little incentive for Balochis to take up arms against NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Balochistan represents a post-charter annexation because Pakistan invaded and seized independent Balochistan in 1948. The case of Balochistan is certainly that of a genuine de-colonisation to restore the pre-colonial status. Baloch is a distinct Nation, possessing its own traditional homeland, its own unique language and a unique culture, and like other nations of the world, has a right to self-determination...
As expected, most Pakistani news channels and newspapers have avoided reporting about the kidnapping of an articulate journalist [Javid Naseer Rind] because they do not want to jeopardize their own lives and economic interests by antagonizing the elements responsible for the abduction.
Pakistan has no room for diversity, and the minorities--ethnic or religious--don't have much of a future. Neither do languages, for all languages other than Urdu and Punjabi are in danger.
The West has spent billions trying to buy Pakistan's friendship but the jihadists are stronger than ever, writes Paul McGeough.
The "˜day of disappeared persons' is not commemorated to remind the disappeared persons' families and friends because they never forget their loved ones; it is to remind deviant states that disappear people, of their moral and legal obligations