How the Taliban Turned Against Pakistan’s Right-Wing Journalists
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on December 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar Pakistan has announced a reward of 50 million rupees (approximately $520,000) for anyone with information about people involved in a failed plot to assassinate a renowned television journalist last week in Islamabad, the nation’s capital. Geo Television, Pakistan’s first 24/7 private news channel, said Hamid Mir, the host of popular talk-show … Read more
Sungi’s conference on Balochistan
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on June 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar I met Sheik Asad Rehman, Director Programs at Sungi Development Foundation and a veteran of 1970s Baloch war of resistance, at the residence of a senior Baloch government official. Asad had come to Quetta on a short trip to make initial arrangements for an upcoming conference on Balochistan being organized by … Read more
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Drone strike on Balochistan: Where is the right target?
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on December 7, 2009 · 1 Comment
Baloch Hal Editorial: By Malik Siraj Akbar US President Barrack Obama has committed an additional 30,000 troops under his new Af-Pak policy announced at United States Military Academy in West Pont, New York. Under this plan, Washington is contemplating withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan in the next 18 months. According to Obama, the US will … Read more
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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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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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Israr Zehri richest among senators: Assets notified
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 1, 2009 · 4 Comments
Courtesy: DAWN, Karachi By Iftikhar A. Khan and Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, Jan 31: Details of assets declared by Senators to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) seem to ridicule the public perception as statements by some legislators perceived to be rolling in money showed that their owned properties valued only a few million rupees. Some … Read more
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Two years after Bugti, divisions and disunity
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on August 26, 2008 · 3 Comments
By Malik Siraj Akbar Balochistan is marking the second death anniversary of its former chief minister and governor, Nawab Mohammad Akbar Khan Bugti, today (Tuesday). The actual causes of the death of the 79-year-old Baloch tribal elder are still shrouded in mystery but its relations between the Centre and the country’s largest province continue to … Read more
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An Interview With Sana Baloch
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on June 3, 2008 · 2 Comments
* Senator Sanaullah Baloch says BNP-M welcomes reconciliation efforts, but stresses reservations of Baloch nationalists must be addressed * Notes parliament unable to deliver on Baloch autonomy since itself is striving to gain powers from ‘establishment’ By Malik Siraj Akbar QUETTA: After ending two years of self-exile, Balochistan’s nationalist firebrand Senator Sanaullah Baloch has returned … Read more
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