Bridging the Rubicon
Why is it that the armed forces and the government disregard the rights of the Baloch people who were a reluctant partner in the first place, and have now increasingly become alienated and seek a radical solution for the cure of their oppression and deprivation?
The News: Special Report on Balochistan
It is tricky saying that Balochistan is not being covered by the mainstream media. Technically, the news keeps trickling out -- of mutilated corpses, of lawyers or academics gone missing, of gas pipelines bombed, of Aghaz e Haqooq e Balochistan Package and so on. It is the manner in which these news items are treated -- by the journalists, editors and analysts -- that makes Balochistan a special case.
Recalling Baloch history
Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo, the leader in the Darul Awam, clearly stated: ..."We are ready to have friendship with that country on the basis of sovereign equality but by no means [are we] ready to merge with Pakistan"¦"
Trigger-happy in Balochistan
Meanwhile, the rest of the country is not losing any sleep over Balochistan. Filmmaker Sharjil Baloch recently told me about his interviews of people in Lahore that clearly established apathy towards Balochistan. Thanks to the blog Cafe Pyala, I was able to see parts of the video. The answers to Baloch's questions mostly drew a blank. Not only were Lahoris blissfully unaware of the developments in Balochistan, most could not name even a single city or town of the province.
Hamid Ali Baloch: Balochi language teacher at Quetta's University of Balochistan
"Despite the appalling illiteracy rate among us, many Baloch speak more than four languages."
Tributes to Prof. Saba Dashtyari by Malik S. Akbar, Kambar Ali, Imtiaz Baloch and Interview by Homayoun Mobaraki
Saba was unique and irreplaceable. You will not find a man who'll spend his salary to impart cultural awareness and secular education at a time when the State of Pakistan is spending billions of rupees with the assistance of its Saudi cronies to radicalize the Baloch society by constructing more and more religious schools to counter the liberal nationalist movement.
Pakistani Intelligence Links to Islamic Extremists Run Deep
During the past nine months, I have lost six colleagues in the conflict. I spent time with all these journalists, working on stories, participating in training programs or developing source networks in the country's largest province bordering Iran and Afghanistan.
Sorry Mr. Saba Dashtiyari
Whoever killed him was not in a hurry. The murderer lent him time to mend his ways. But just because Saba Dashtiyari was an emotional man and used his heart more than his brain thats why he could not figure out how to make use of this ultimatum and how to play within the rules. He kept on playing with fire through his firebrand speeches and rousing work for the rights of the Baloch nation.
The Baloch Noam Chomsky Is Dead, BalochHal Editorial
There is renewed anger across Balochistan over the dreadful assassination of one of the most popular icons of Balochi literature and civil society, Dr. Saba Dashtiyari. A professor of Islamic studies at the University of Balochistan, the fifty-eight-year old university educator was gunned down when he was taking a walk in Quetta on Wednesday night.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere
In mainstream media and civil society there is, with a few exceptions, complete silence on the killings of the Baloch. It is time that we all realised that silence makes us a party to the crimes committed in the name of the "˜writ of the state'
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