What After Bramdagh’s Exile?
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar In the first week of February, the pro-independence Baloch Republican Party publically (BRP) announced that its head, Nawabzada Bramdagh Bugti, had fled to Switzerland to apply for political asylum. A grandson of former Balochistan governor and chief minister Nawab Akbar Bugti, twenty-nine year old Bramdagh Bugti has been at large since … Read more
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An evening with politicians-like judges
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on June 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar So Chief Justice Ifthakar Mohammad Chaudhary and Vice President of Supreme Court Bar Amanullah Kanrani are friends again. In the past, people used to admit the unpredictable attitude of the politicians by saying that politics was the art of hammering out solutions. Therefore, there were no permanent friends or enemies in … Read more
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COMMENT: Significance of Raisani-Mengal meeting
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on January 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Tuesday, January 05, 2010 COMMENT: Significance of Raisani-Mengal meeting —Malik Siraj Akbar An unexpected but a very significant meeting took place between Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani and veteran Baloch nationalist leader Sardar Attaullah Mengal last Saturday (January 2) at the latter’s residence in Wadh, Khuzdar district. Limited details of the meeting were … Read more
BNP demands UN-sponsored plebiscite in Balochistan, says secretary general Habib Jalib Baloch
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on December 1, 2009 · 1 Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar The Balochistan National Party (BNP) is the largest opposition party in Balochistan which came under severe fire during the military regime of General Pervez Musharraf. The party’s chief, Sardar Akhtar Mengal, a former chief minister of Balochistan, was arrested and literally put into an ‘iron cage’ fore more than one year. … Read more
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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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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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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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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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