Interview With Duniya News
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on November 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The Washington DC Correspondent of the Pakistani private news channel Duniya News, Owais Saleem, interviewed me last week about my asylum case in the United States. Earlier in the day, Mr. Saleem had raised the question at the State Department press briefing if my asylum was meant on the part of the US government to … Read more
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Baloch blogger gets asylum in US
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on November 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Devirupa Mitra of the New Indian Express profiled me on November 20th after talking to me about my journalistic career. In the interview, we discussed a wide range of issues, including my decision to apply for political asylum in the United States and the lack of positive response on the part of the Pakistani liberals … Read more
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My Interview on Radio Canada International
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on November 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Wojtek Gwiazda of Radio Canada International interviewed me last week about my case of political asylum in the United States and the state of the press freedom and human rights in Balochistan. I am pleased to share the link to the interview with you hoping that you’ll spare a little time and listen to it. … Read more
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Pakistani Journalist Explains ‘Painful Decision’ To Apply For Asylum In U.S.
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on November 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment
RADIO FREE EUROPE —RADIO LIBERTY FRIDAY 18, NOVEMBER, 2011 A Pakistani journalist of Baluchi origin has described how the disappearances and deaths of colleagues back home prompted him to make the “painful” decision to apply for political asylum in the United States, RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal reports. Malik Siraj Akbar was granted political asylum in the … Read more
Why I fled Pakistan
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on November 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment
In May 2006, at the age of 23, I joined the Daily Times, Pakistan’s most liberal English-language newspaper, as a bureau chief. I was perhaps the youngest bureau chief to cover the country’s largest province, Baluchistan, and its longstanding, deadly insurgency. I covered fierce military operations, daily bomb blasts, rocket attacks, enforced disappearances, torture of … Read more
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Pakistani Journalist Given U.S. Asylum Tells of Threats, Disappearances in Baluchistan
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on November 14, 2011 · 2 Comments
By Pamela Constable, Monday, November 14, 8:33 AM THE WASHINGTON POST Siraj Ahmed Malik, an ambitious young Pakistani journalist, was enjoying a stint last fall on a fellowship at the University of Arizona when he started getting chilling messages from home.One after another, his friends and colleagues were disappearing, he learned, and their bodies were … Read more
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How India, the ‘troublemaker in Balochistan’, become Islamabad’s Most Favored Nation
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on November 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment
For almost a decade, Pakistan has killed its own people in Balochistan and subjected them to enforced disappearance, brutal torture by terming them ‘Indian agents’. Former military dictator General Pervez Musharraf said his operation against unarmed Baloch people was ’500% justified” because Indian secret service Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) allegedly supported nationalist leader Bramdagh … Read more
Najam Sethi at SAIS
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on November 8, 2011 · 1 Comment
I attended a talk by prominent Pakistani journalist Najam Sethi at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University about the US-Pakistan relations and the country’s domestic politics. Respected American experts on South Asian affairs, such as Dr. Stephen P. Cohen and Walter Andersen were also present at the … Read more
Shooting the Messenger
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on November 8, 2011 · 1 Comment
The gory list of Baloch journalists being brutally killed presumably by the Pakistani intelligence agencies continues to increase with the latest brutal murder of Javed Naseer Rind. A former deputy editor of Urdu-language newspaper, Daily Tawar, and an articulate columnist, Rind was indeed a smart and professional journalist whose services and bold columns will be … Read more
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Bringing Musharraf to Justice
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on November 5, 2011 · Leave a Comment
In a fiercely independent judgement, the Balochistan High Court (BHC) has ordered the federal government to seek the extradition of former military chief and the president, General (R) Pervez Musharraf, in the murder case of ex-governor and chief minister Nawab Mohammad Akbar Bugti. Coming from an assertive and relatively independent judiciary, the decision has also … Read more
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