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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Balochistan situation getting bleaker by the day
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on September 1, 2009 · 6 Comments
THE HINDU, Wednesday, Sep 02, 2009 Opinion – News Analysis Balochistan situation getting bleaker by the day By Malik Siraj Akbar On August 26, Pakistan’s volatile Balochistan province marked the third death anniversary of its slain leader, Nawab Akbar Bugti, amid widespread violence. Ten people were killed; several gas pipelines blown up and electricity pylons … Read more
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DAY 4: FC’s attack on Balochistan’s fearless Press
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on August 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar Following the forced closure of Daily Aassap, FC troops had laid a siege of the offices of Daily Balochistan Express and Daily Azadi, two prominent independent newspapers from this backward Province of Balochistan. It is the fourth consecutive day that the FC troops laid the siege, checking and intimidating the staff … Read more
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DAY 3: Khakis Press, Repress, Suppress
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on August 23, 2009 · 3 Comments
By Malik Siraj Akbar The Frontier Corps (FC) personnel continued the siege of the offices of Daily Balochistan Express and Daily Azadi on the third consecutive day on Friday. The siege included body search and intense questioning of the newspapers’ staff members on their arrival at and departure from the office. They had blocked the … 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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