What Happened in New Delhi conference?


By Malik Siraj Akbar “I really don’t understand your (Pakistani) people,” regretted this Indian journalist fellow who was also one of the organizers of the recently held India-Pakistan conference: A roadmap towards peace in New Delhi. It was a tea break. Both of us walked slowly out of the conference hall of India International Center … Read more

Pakistan’s “anchrocarcy “


News One, a Pakistani private news channel, invited me last night to speak in one of its one-hour talk shows. The topic of the discussion was Indian’s involvement in Balochistan and the state of security in the province. The reason I agreed to speak in the show, despite knowing that it is the same channel … Read more

‘India sponsoring terrorism in Balochistan, Waziristan’


Daily Times Thursday, November 19, 2009 ‘India sponsoring terrorism in Balochistan, Waziristan’ By Malik Siraj Akbar QUETTA: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Wednesday said India was supporting terror in Balochistan and the government had concrete evidence that New Delhi was involved in destabilising the province and Waziristan Agency. Shahbaz asked India to behave like … Read more

EXCLUSIVE: “If I compromise on Baloch movement, my followers will kill, replace and forget me,” says Bramdagh Bugti


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

A Home-grown Conflict


A Home-grown Conflict By Malik Siraj Akbar 11 August 2009, 12:00am IST When the first Baloch insurgency broke out in 1948 to resist the illegal and forceful annexation of the Baloch-populated autonomous Kalat state with Pakistan, Manmohan Singh – today Indian prime minister – was barely a teenager while his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani … Read more

John Solecki video released


Pakistani news channel Dunya News ran a video of John Solecki issued by the Baloch Liberation United Front (BLUF) giving a 72-hour ultimatum for their demands to be met. John, the TV said, was complaining of bad health and pleading for help. The video shows John blindfolded with a green piece of cloth. He seemed … Read more

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