We all love Jan Dashti
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 23, 2009 · 22 Comments
By Malik Siraj Akbar Two consecutive phone calls on Monday morning, one from our senior scholar Hakeem Baloch and the other by Obaid Shad, the resident editor of Daily Asaap from Turbat, woke me up the other morning. They gave me an extremely shocking news that ‘Dashti Sahib’, as our very own renowned Baloch intellectual … Read more
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John Solecki killed….Not killed!
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 23, 2009 · 4 Comments
Several Pakistani news channels ran a false news report this morning saying that John Solecki had been killed. The report was aired as ‘breaking news’. No one mentioned a source. The ‘breaking news’ traveled with a light speed across the world. It said that the kidnappers of Solecki had announced that the latter had been … Read more
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Father of slain girls under pressure to drop charges
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 19, 2009 · 1 Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar QUETTA: Devastated over the mysterious murder of two of his infant daughters in a single week, 35-year old bus driver Mohammad Ismail [The man in black with a red cap]is currently under intense pressure from some locally influential people to drop the murder charges against a sorcerer whom he holds responsible … Read more
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Baloch demands still unmet
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 19, 2009 · 2 Comments
By Sanaullah Baloch Islamabad’s recent move to grant religious self-rule to the Taliban in Swat and the denial of political autonomy to the people of Balochistan are obviously beyond comprehension. The establishment’s unwillingness to end the costly conflict in the resource-rich, strategically significant region is a clear sign of the undemocratic approach towards resolving the … Read more
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Sunni leader gunned down in Quetta
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 18, 2009 · 2 Comments
QUETTA: Unidentified men killed Jamaat Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat-Noorani provincial leader Maulana Iftikhar Ahmed Habibi in Quetta on Wednesday, sparking a wave of protests. Police said Habibi, who was also a regular Islamic commentator on the Pakistan Television (PTV), was killed by unidentified men when he was on his way to work. Habibi was driving to … Read more
Protected: A thoughtful evening with some foreign diplomats
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BREAKING NEWS: BLUF rejects UN appeal for direct contact
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 18, 2009 · 2 Comments
The Baloch Liberation United Front (BLUF), which has taken hostage the American head of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) for the past two weeks, spurned on Wednesday a plea of the United Nations (UN) for direct negotiations with the kidnappers for the release of the world body’s senior official, John Solecki. The … Read more
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Geo news correspondent killed in Matta
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment
There is this sad news coming from Swat that a Geo News and The News correspondent, Mosa Khankhel has been killed in Matta on Wednesday. Read More
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Interview on VoA
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment
I spoke in an hour-long talk show on the Vice of America (Urdu Service) tonight about the abduction of John Solecki. Reputed broadcaster, Nafisa Hoodbhoy, hosted the show. The other guests included Dr. Hakeem Lehri, the central leader of the Baloch Republican Party (BRP), Irfan Saeed, the bureau chief of Online News Agency [ which … Read more
JUST-IN:UN officials meet Nawab Marri unofficially
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 17, 2009 · 3 Comments
Many of the readers of this blog keep asking me: “What is your source?” C’mon guys. If a Pakistani citizen asks me this question then I won’t mind it because we do not have a popular and widespread culture of blogging in this country yet. However, in the countries where blogging has established itself as … Read more
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