Good bye for now!
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on May 27, 2009 · 4 Comments
Dear Readers, This blog is going to shut for an indefinite period due to some unavoidable circumstances. I will try to come back with the blog as soon as circumstances turn favorable. No need to worry, friends. I am fine and everything is in control. MALIK SIRAJ AKBAR
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French tourist kidnapped in Balochistan: police
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on May 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Haider Aajiz, a journalist friend of mine from Dalbandin informed me about the kidnapping of a French citizen today. More information is provided in this story that I saw on web site of the Pakistan newspaper, The Nation: I came across this Gunmen kidnapped a French tourist in Balochistan on Saturday, snatching him from a … Read more
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Aali elected new Bugti tribe chief
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on May 20, 2009 · 23 Comments
By Malik Siraj Akbar QUETTA: The worrier Bugti tribe on Tuesday crowned 36-year old Mir Aali Bugti, a grandson of late Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, as its 23rd Nawab in Sui tehsil of the gas-rich Dear Bugti district in a Jirga after a lull of four years since the killing of their tribal chief in … Read more
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Balochistan decides to abolish Musharraf-era police system
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on May 20, 2009 · 1 Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar QUETTA: The Balochistan government and the top bureaucracy in the province have decided to abolish the police system introduced by former president Pervez Musharraf and return to the centuries-old Levies system. “The federal as well as the provincial government have now decided to discard the existing police system and reintroduce the … Read more
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Islamabad’s divide and rule game in Balochistan
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on May 18, 2009 · 5 Comments
By Malik Siraj Akbar Only the desolately pessimists would conclude that the situation in Balochistan has reached a no-return point. Sardar Attaullah Mengal, the province’s first chief minister, said in September 2006 in an interview with Pulse magazine that the killing of Nawab Bugti had plunged the Balochistan situation into a point of no-return. Mengal’s … Read more
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The never investigated killing of three Baloch leaders
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on May 16, 2009 · 1 Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar While brutally shooting three top Baloch nationalist leaders last month at an unknown location near Turbat district, the murderers must have been comforted that no genuine investigation would ever follow to trail their roots. The eyewitnesses who saw Balochistan National Movement chairman Ghulam Mohammad Baloch, vice president Lala Munir Ahmed Baloch … Read more
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Shame to the UN(HCR)
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on May 14, 2009 · 20 Comments
While I woke up this fine morning, I learnt I had begun to hate the UN(HCR). The UN(HCR) has, by its deeds, proved that it is racially discriminating the Baloch internally displaced persons (IDPs). It has been almost two years that we have been continuously appealing to the international community to approach the two hundred … Read more
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