Revisiting the Che Guevara-like Days of Baloch Resistance Movement with Asad Rahman
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on October 19, 2009 · 34 Comments
By Malik Siraj Akbar Guerilla movements in Balochistan have always been romanticized by young men who aspire to overthrow the domineering elite and bring revolutions. Taking to the hills for the rights of the Baloch fatherland is what has placed many Baloch governors, princes and tribal chiefs at irremovable positions in the annals of the … Read more
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Interview with BNP secretary general Habib Jalib
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on September 12, 2009 · 1 Comment
بلوچستان میں فوجی آپریشن کے خاتمے، فورسز کے انخلا اور لاپتہ افراد کی بازیابی تک مذاکرات نہیں ہو سکتے بلوچستان نیشنل پارٹی کے جنرل سیکرٹری حبیب جالب سے خصوصی انٹرویو انٹرویو: ملک سراج اکبر بلوچستان نیشنل پارٹی (بی این پی) بلوچستان کی سب سے بڑی قوم پرست جماعت سمجھی جاتی ہے۔ اس جماعت نے اگست … Read more
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EXCLUSIVE: “If I compromise on Baloch movement, my followers will kill, replace and forget me,” says Bramdagh Bugti
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on September 10, 2009 · 19 Comments
EXCLUSIVE: By Malik Siraj Akbar A confident Baloch guerrilla commander Nawabzada Bramdagh Bugti, 28, believes it is now “impossible” for Islamabad to get him extradited even if he is hiding somewhere in Afghanistan, as claimed by Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik, or elsewhere in the wake of increasing “international moral support” the “ Baloch national … Read more
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I am not anti-tribalism: Bramdagh Bugti
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on September 5, 2009 · 4 Comments
میں قبائلی نظام کا مخالف نہیں ہوں“ جنگ مسلط کی گئی… حکومت اپنے اقدامات سے ثابت کرے کہ وہ حل کے لیے سنجیدہ ہے“ انٹرویو: ملک سراج اکبر براہمداغ بگٹی ترک پارلیمان کی سوچ رکھنے والی بلوچ ری پبلکن پارٹی (بی آر پی) کے سربراہ ہیں اور 2006ء میں اپنے داد ا کی ہلاکت کے … Read more
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Cold shoulder for the Balochistan parliamentary committee
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on September 5, 2009 · 1 Comment
پارلیمانی کمیٹی اور بلوچستان کا مسئلہ ماضی میں وسیم سجاد اور مشاہد حسین کی سربراہی میں بننے والی کمیٹی سے تمام بلوچ رہنما مذاکرات کرنے کے لیے تیار تھے مگر اب صورت حال مختلف ہے ملک سراج اکبر بلوچستان میں شورش میں کمی کے بجائے بتدریج اضافہ نے ایک بار پھر پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی کی … 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: a broken promise?
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on March 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Courtesy: DAWN By Malik Siraj Akbar Monday, 02 Mar, 2009 PPP spokesman Farhatullah Babar’s article in these pages, in response to one by former senator Sanaullah Baloch, cleverly skirted the issue of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and missing persons in the country’s largest province of Balochistan. It is, in fact, these two unresolved issues that … Read more
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INSIGHT: Balochistan needs a rethink —Ejaz Haider
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on January 7, 2009 · 3 Comments
Source: Daily Times INSIGHT: Balochistan needs a rethink —Ejaz Haider The Balochistan National Party (BNP) Information Secretary and former senator Mr Sanaullah Baloch has told this newspaper of a presumed policy by the federal government “to pit the religious elements against the Baloch nationalists”. Just in case anyone thought Mr Baloch was being mealy-mouthed about … Read more
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Faiz Baluch is ‘casualty of post-9/11 geo-politics’
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on January 6, 2009 · 1 Comment
From Times Online January 5, 2009 Asylum seeker Faiz Baluch is ‘casualty of post-September 11th geo-politics’ By Fran Yeoman An asylum seeker on trial for allegedly inciting terrorist murder in Pakistan is not a criminal but a casualty of post-September 11th geo-politics and the alliances forged between Britain, America and the Musharraf regime, a court … Read more
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Efforts underway to cover up Sui rape case
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on September 16, 2008 · 2 Comments
* PPL, DSG allegedly offering rape victim money, job to son if she withdraws her complaint By Malik Siraj Akbar Police in Sui have made no breakthrough four days after the alleged gang rape of a Baloch widow by the personnel of the Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) and the Defence Security Guards (DSG) as senior … Read more
