What Pakistan’s Elections Will Not Deliver
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on April 20, 2013 · Leave a Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar For an unstable and fragile country like Pakistan, next month’s general elections are important. But they will not necessarily resolve many of the country’s outstanding problems. For instance, none of the mainstream political parties, including the secular groups, has promised to eliminate or at least enervate the influence of political Islam. … Read more
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Al-Qaeda: Weak But Undefeated in Pakistan
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on June 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar The killing of Abu Yahya al-Libi, Al-Qaeda’s second most important leader after Ayman al-Zawahri, in a drone strike in Pakistan’s ungovernable tribal region clearly indicates that the global Jihadist syndicate is weak but not fully dismantled. In addition, Al-Qaeda, as shown in the latest incident, has not completely left Pakistan. Last year, I asked Pulitzer … Read more
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IVLP: Saturday February 13, 2010
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 15, 2010 · 4 Comments
International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) Saturday February 13, 2010 The first part of our International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) ended in the US capital Washington DC today. However, the group would return to the District of Columbia to make for the all those appointments which were cancelled due to unprecedented snow on our arrival. For … Read more
Children of the conflict
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on January 3, 2010 · 1 Comment
The Baloch Hal Editorial January 4th, 2010 By Malik Siraj Akbar With the commencement of the new year, 2010, children of the missing Baloch persons have established a hunger strike camp in front of Quetta Press Club. The composition of the camp is very diverse. These children come from different districts of Balochistan. Their ‘missing’ … 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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‘India sponsoring terrorism in Balochistan, Waziristan’
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on November 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Daily Times Thursday, November 19, 2009 ‘India sponsoring terrorism in Balochistan, Waziristan’ By Malik Siraj Akbar QUETTA: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Wednesday said India was supporting terror in Balochistan and the government had concrete evidence that New Delhi was involved in destabilising the province and Waziristan Agency. Shahbaz asked India to behave like … Read more
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Iran Guards say Pakistan released Jundallah leader
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on November 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment
TEHRAN — (AFP): The deputy head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards charged on Friday that Pakistan arrested and then released the leader of Jundallah a few days before a suicide bombing claimed by the Sunni rebel group. “We have precise information about the movement and places where terrorists are hiding,” the Fars news agency quoted … Read more
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Destabilizing Baluchistan, Fracturing Pakistan
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on November 3, 2009 · 2 Comments
Destabilizing Baluchistan, Fracturing Pakistan The Triangle of Jundallah, the Taliban, and Sipah-e-Sahaba By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya “Managed Chaos” is the proper term to describe the tensions in NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan and the border zones of Pakistan. Afghanistan and Pakistan, which are now being described by the Pentagon and NATO as the same front in the very … Read more
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ICG Report: Countering Militancy in FATA
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on October 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment
According to the International Crisis Group, “The military operation in South Waziristan is unlikely to succeed in curbing the spread of religious militancy in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), unless the Pakistan government implements political reforms in that part of the country. Pakistani Taliban groups have gained significant power in the tribal agencies, seven … Read more
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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