A Home-grown Conflict
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on August 10, 2009 · 2 Comments
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
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Radicalised Balochi culture in the wake of conflict
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on November 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar The conflict in Balochistan in the past few years – involving a low-level insurgency, an aggressive military operation, numerous enforced disappearances and the murder of two key Baloch nationalist leaders – has tremendously radicalised the Baloch culture, signs of which are visible in Balochi films, music and poetry. Previously known for … Read more
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