The Last Nawab
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on August 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar No single date left such a lasting impression on the society and politics of Balochistan like August 26th, 2006. It was, no doubt, “Balochistan’s 9/11” when the province’s former governor and elected chief minister Nawab Mohammad Akbar Khan Bugti was brutally murdered by the democracy-blind military dictator, General Pervez Musharraf. Balochistan … Read more
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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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Search for a new governor
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on June 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar Reports have suddenly begun to pour in about a possible change in Governor’s House, Quetta. Such reports cannot be termed as “rumors” or “speculations” for the reason that the incumbent governor of the province, Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi, has already tendered his resignation from the office. It has been more than … Read more
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The riddle of Baluchistan
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on November 3, 2009 · 1 Comment
By Hamida Ghafour in THE NATIONAL on October 23, 2009 When the British army advanced through Baluchistan in 1839, one of its officers wrote that the Baluch were so treacherous that the troublesome fiefdom required an “exaction of retribution” and the “execution of such arrangements as would establish future security in that area”. Mehrab Khan, … Read more
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Is Baluchistan becoming another East Pakistan?
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on September 13, 2009 · 5 Comments
By Kuldip Nayar Islamabad faces today practically the same situation in Baluchistan as it did in East Pakistan. The former is as increasingly getting alienated from Pakistan as was Bangladesh in the midst of liberating itself. The army was supreme then as it is today in Baluchistan. Zulfikhar Ali Bhutto, then heading the Pakistan People … Read more
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Interview with BNP secretary general Habib Jalib
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on September 12, 2009 · 1 Comment
بلوچستان میں فوجی آپریشن کے خاتمے، فورسز کے انخلا اور لاپتہ افراد کی بازیابی تک مذاکرات نہیں ہو سکتے بلوچستان نیشنل پارٹی کے جنرل سیکرٹری حبیب جالب سے خصوصی انٹرویو انٹرویو: ملک سراج اکبر بلوچستان نیشنل پارٹی (بی این پی) بلوچستان کی سب سے بڑی قوم پرست جماعت سمجھی جاتی ہے۔ اس جماعت نے اگست … Read more
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EXCLUSIVE: “If I compromise on Baloch movement, my followers will kill, replace and forget me,” says Bramdagh Bugti
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on September 10, 2009 · 19 Comments
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
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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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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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