The Baloch Hal Editorial: Tribute to Mother-e-Balochistan
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on May 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar The team of Voice for Missing Baloch Persons office-bearers met a tragic road accident in Kalat last week. The team was traveling from Quetta to Karachi to attend an official meeting about the Baloch missing persons. This group entirely comprised of the relatives of the missing Baloch persons who were clung … Read more
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Religion as a panacea for Baloch nationalism
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on May 21, 2010 · 3 Comments
By Malik Siraj Akbar Striking Quetta’s Civil Hospital on April 16, 2010, a young Baloch suicide bomber, Haq Nawaz Baloch, killed at least eleven people, including two top police officials and a television journalist. This attack was dissimilar from ones previously carried out by Baloch nationalist guerrilla fighters against government installations and its security forces. … Read more
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Baloch nationalism gone wrong
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on May 20, 2010 · 2 Comments
Published on Thursday May 20, 2010 The recent meeting between Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and seasoned Baloch leader Sardar Attaullah Mengal was a breakthrough in government efforts to reconcile with disillusioned Balochis. Ever since coming into power, the PPP government has failed to resolve the Balochistan conflict due to the unwillingness of the Marri, … Read more
The insecure women of Balochistan
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on May 17, 2010 · 2 Comments
The Baloch Hal Editorial By Malik Siraj Akbar Women become the first and the safest targets of many fanatical religious movements. Be it a revolution on the name of religion or a movement to “purify” a society from “evils”, the leaders of such so-called reformist initiatives first of all enforce all their “wonderful ideas” on … Read more
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A US consulate for Balochistan
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on May 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The Baloch Hal Editorial By Malik Siraj Akbar It is not known with certainty why the indigenous Baloch media was barred from meeting the US ambassador to Pakistan, Anne W. Patterson, during her latest visit to Balochistan. The visiting top diplomat did not meet the Baloch journalists, barring a few, to ascertain the actual state … Read more
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Marri-Mengal tussle: Please stop the music
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on May 14, 2010 · 1 Comment
The Baloch Hal Editorial By Malik Siraj Akbar This newspaper had previously predicted that the meeting between Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani and veteran Baloch nationalist leader Sardar Attaullah Mengal in Karachi earlier this week would divide the Balochs. While making such a predication, we had not imagined in our wildest dreams that the … Read more
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An unfriendly foreign education project for Balochistan
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on May 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The Baloch Hal Editorial By Malik Siraj Akbar A foreign non-governmental organization, Save the Children, has initiated a five-year project with the collaboration of Netherlands in Balochistan to improve the quality of education in the country’s least educated province. The projected has been launched amid great fanfare and media hype with projections of yielding positive … Read more
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“Mango diplomacy” will further divide the Balochs
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on May 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment
News Analysis: “Mango diplomacy” will further divide the Balochs By Malik Siraj Akbar This scribe was a part of a so-called peace delegation from Balochistan in August 2008 that visited Islamabad to meet people from different walks of life in order to inform them about the actual situation in Balochistan. Organized by a western non-governmental … Read more
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Not the mango season in Balochistan
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on May 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The Baloch Hal Editorial By Malik Siraj Akbar If Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani does not understand the politics of Balochistan then he cannot accurately assess the magnitude of his success notched on Saturday by meeting with veteran Baloch nationalist leader Sardar Attaullah Mengal. In fact, Mengal’s willingness to meet the head of Pakistani government … Read more
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BIFD-NED workshop calls for full implementation of FOIA
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on May 2, 2010 · 1 Comment
QUETTA, APRIL 28, 2010: Journalists from different districts of Balochistan have appealed to the government to ensure the smooth implementation of the Freed of Information Act (FOIA 2002) for the provision of accurate information to every citizen of the country, including the journalists, in order to improve the quality of journalism in the country. Journalists … Read more
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