Pakistan’s Festering Wound
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar On February 8, representatives of Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International testified before the Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee on Oversight and Investigations at the US Congress against grave human rights abuses committed by Pakistan’s security forces in the restive province of Balochistan. Since then, Islamabad has used as many as 10 … Read more
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Balochistan and its ‘jealous husband’
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar When she last visited Islamabad, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had a Pakistani woman tell her, during a town hall-style meeting in Islamabad, that the relationship between America and Pakistan was that of an unappreciative mother-in-law (the mother-in-law of course being America). A similar analogy also applies to Islamabad’s relationship … Read more
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Pakistan Unites Against Rohrabacher’s Pro-Baloch Congressional Resolution
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar When Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher concluded a controversial hearing of Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee on Oversight and Investigations on February 8 calling for the Baloch people’s right to self-determination in the southwest of Pakistan by saying “this was certainly not a stunt on anybody’s part,” he simply meant more staggering developments had … Read more
