Bugti DID NOT say “Baloch Terrorists”
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on January 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment
In an unprecedented acknowledgment of a blunder, Daily Times‘ writer K Ali Chishti admitted today in a published “letter to the editor” that Bramdagh Bugti had not used the word “Baloch terrorists” in his interview published two days ago. Ali demonstrated great professionalism in his letter by completely taking ownership for this mistake without blaming … Read more
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COMMENT: Nawaz Sharif’s Balochistan visit —Malik Siraj Akbar
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on January 15, 2010 · 2 Comments
COMMENT: Nawaz Sharif’s Balochistan visit —Malik Siraj Akbar Sharif has surely won the confidence of key Baloch tribal elders by now and will continue to do so in the coming days but he still has a long way to go to win the hearts and minds of the disillusioned Baloch people with his deeds Mian … Read more
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COMMENT: Significance of Raisani-Mengal meeting
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on January 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Tuesday, January 05, 2010 COMMENT: Significance of Raisani-Mengal meeting —Malik Siraj Akbar An unexpected but a very significant meeting took place between Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani and veteran Baloch nationalist leader Sardar Attaullah Mengal last Saturday (January 2) at the latter’s residence in Wadh, Khuzdar district. Limited details of the meeting were … Read more
PRESS REVIEW: Killing of Balochistan’s Education Minister
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on October 27, 2009 · 3 Comments
DAILY TIMES EDITORIAL: State of affairs in Balochistan The Baloch Liberation United Front (BLUF) has killed the Balochistan Education Minister Shafiq Ahmed Khan outside his residence in Quetta. The slain minister was a member of the ruling PPP but was Punjabi by extraction. He is the second Balochistan minister to be killed in the last … Read more
Taliban exist in Quetta: US diplomat
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on October 14, 2009 · 4 Comments
DAILY TIMES Thursday, October 15, 2009 Taliban exist in Quetta: US diplomat * Stephen Fakan says Taliban should not be allowed to operate from Balochistan * Lauds Pakistan Army for tremendous efforts against terrorism By Malik Siraj Akbar QUETTA: The Taliban are currently living in Quetta and need to be eliminated before they consolidate their … Read more
Boots, guns, tanks now come to Daily Balochistan Express/ Azadi
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on August 21, 2009 · 5 Comments
<img By Malik Siraj Akbar “I told the forces deployed outside my office that I was a journalist not a “terrorist”,” recalls Rashid Baloch [name changed], a reporter affiliated with Quetta-based daily Balochistan Express. Rashid, 25, was on his way for the morning shift at the newspaper office located a few hundred meters away from … 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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DAILY TIMES EDITORIAL: And now drones for Balochistan?
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on March 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
EDITORIAL: And now drones for Balochistan? No one in Pakistan will support the reported plans in Washington to extend American drone attacks from the Tribal Areas to the already disturbed province of Balochistan. The Foreign Office in Islamabad has dismissed the news about the broadening of attacks published in the New York Times as speculation, … Read more
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Khalid Hasan, great journalist, great man
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 7, 2009 · 2 Comments
Editorial of Daily Times Saturday, February 07, 2009 Khalid Hasan (1937-2009) has died in Washington DC on Friday where he began living in 2000 and became correspondent for The Friday Times (TFT) and Daily Times (DT) in 2002. People who have known him personally will mourn him deeply because of his generosity and an ever-ready … Read more
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Khalid Hasan passes away
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 6, 2009 · 3 Comments
I just got the news from DawnNews that senior journalist, author and translator Khalid Hassan has passed away. He was working as the Washington correspondent of Daily Times and the Friday TImes. Undoubtedly, we have lost an exceptionally outstanding journalist. I have been reading Mr. Hasan’s thought-provoking and witty pieces in The Friday Times and … Read more
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