Baloch Hal Editorial: Why Pakistan Should Divorce Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
The city of Quetta observed a day of mourning on Sunday against the killing of more than 24 people in Saturday's coordinated attacks on a university bus and the Bolan Medical College Hospital. When a political party within the ruling coalition, such as the Pashtunkhawa Milli Awami Party, calls for a strike, it implicitly shows the government's helplessness to grapple with hard challenges.
The Chinese Cozy Up to the Pakistanis
To counter what China is doing in Pakistan, the United States should play hardball by supporting the movement for an independent Baluchistan along the Arabian Sea and working with Baluch insurgents to oust the Chinese from their budding naval base at Gwadar. Beijing wants its inroads into Gilgit and Baltistan to be the first step on its way to an Arabian Sea outlet at Gwadar.
An interview with a Baloch guerrilla commander
Commander Allah Nazar: "Pakistan is an irresponsible state that is putting the civilized world in danger."
The choice is ours
...American historian Howard Zinn explains it very eloquently and forcefully. He says, "Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders"¦ Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience and millions have been killed because of this obedience"¦Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty.
The Baloch perspective
Pakistan's mounting energy crisis and the growing demand for energy security in the region have magnified Balochistan's economic and strategic importance. As a result, in each and every significant agreement signed between Beijing, Islamabad and Tehran, Balochistan is the centre of attention.
Independence is the only way forward for nations under foreign occupation
Let this day be a reminder that if we fail to unite as a nation, we are doomed to remain disunited as slaves.
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