While in the Musharraf era, the focus of the establishment was to eliminate patriots from the Baloch tribal elite such as Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, the current strategy has shifted to the destruction of the middle strata leadership to weaken the grassroots connections and Baloch intelligentsia
Pakistan is relevant to all five "frightening scenarios" outlined in the European Security Strategy (ESS) paper in 2003. These key fears include - terrorism, proliferation of WMD, regional conflicts, state failure and organized crime including drug and human trafficking.
OUTSIDE the Karachi Press Club, after years of protests in Quetta and other parts of the province, hundreds of families hailing from impoverished parts of Balochistan are protesting and holding pictures of their loved ones, who have gone missing due to `enforced disappearances`.
Sanaullah Baloch - Why haven't Pakistan's "˜blood and conflict' resources never attracted international attention? Conversely, the discovery of what is said to be the world's second largest copper-gold reserve, Reko Diq, in Balochistan's Chaghi region has attracted many greedy companies, benefiting from corrupt deals.
Sanaullah Baloch - CHILE'S remarkable rescue operation of 33 trapped miners enhanced the image of the country as a responsible state. Pakistan and Chile have many similarities "” from copper and gold exploitation to a history of military rule, human rights violations and enforced disappearances.
Sanaullah Baloch - After creating political and economic disarray and committing atrocities, the majority of detested world leaders moved to different countries that offered them protection and pleasure. But a great number of the world's reviled state heads have remained in their countries, benefiting from their institutional connections and an incapable judicial system