The Future of Pakistan
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on January 15, 2012 · 1 Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar Dr Stephen P Cohen, a Senior Fellow at the Washington DC-based think tank the Brookings Institution, is considered as the ‘dean of the Pakistan experts’. He is known as one of the world’s most trusted authorities on the Pakistani military and its relationship with the civilian governments. Author of Pakistan Army … Read more
What Bothers Them: Fake Degrees Or Democracy?
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on June 28, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar What could be the best option available for aviation authorities when they desperately feel the need for bringing down an airline in the middle of its journey because someone among the passengers managed to board the flight with a fake boarding pass? In such a situation, bringing down the entire aircraft … Read more
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Book Musharraf for Bugti’s murder: BHC
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on October 8, 2009 · 1 Comment
Book Musharraf for Bugti’s murder: BHC By Malik Siraj Akbar QUETTA: The Balochistan High Court (BHC) on Wednesday ordered Dera Bugti district police to register a case against former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf and former prime minister Shaukat Aziz in connection with their alleged involvement in the murder of Nawab Akbar Bugti. The directives … 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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The First Night of Torture Cell
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on July 11, 2009 · 3 Comments
By Malik Siraj Akbar “Sometimes when my uncles got together, they would go into a corner and talk about a mysterious thing called sex. It sounded wonderful. I prayed that it would not go away before I grew up.” [The Other Side of Me, Sidney Sheldon] I was born during Zia-ul-Haq’s military regime. Normally many … Read more
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The never investigated killing of three Baloch leaders
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on May 16, 2009 · 1 Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar While brutally shooting three top Baloch nationalist leaders last month at an unknown location near Turbat district, the murderers must have been comforted that no genuine investigation would ever follow to trail their roots. The eyewitnesses who saw Balochistan National Movement chairman Ghulam Mohammad Baloch, vice president Lala Munir Ahmed Baloch … Read more
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My Response to Alia’s Open Letter regarding Zarina Marri
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on January 19, 2009 · 5 Comments
Dr. Alia, Greetings, Thank you very much for your kind mail. I deeply admire your courage to raise the voice of Zarina Marri in the federal capital. What has stunned me the most is the double standards of the Pakistani media, civil society and the political parties demonstrated in the wake of the startling disclosure … Read more
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Faiz Baluch is ‘casualty of post-9/11 geo-politics’
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on January 6, 2009 · 1 Comment
From Times Online January 5, 2009 Asylum seeker Faiz Baluch is ‘casualty of post-September 11th geo-politics’ By Fran Yeoman An asylum seeker on trial for allegedly inciting terrorist murder in Pakistan is not a criminal but a casualty of post-September 11th geo-politics and the alliances forged between Britain, America and the Musharraf regime, a court … Read more
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The case against Musharraf
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on September 22, 2008 · 2 Comments
By Sanaullah Baloch IN the last six decades a significant number of so-called state leaders have been prosecuted and brought before various domestic and international courts and tribunals for their official and unofficial crimes against humanity and genocide. Unfortunately, the most unpopular state leaders have enjoyed lifetime immunity in domestic and foreign courts for their … Read more
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From Dr. Shahzia Khalid to Fardous Bibi
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on September 16, 2008 · 2 Comments
By Malik Siraj Akbar Four highly influential functionaries of the Defense Security Guards (DSG) and the Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) were implicated by Sui Police in Dera Bugti district on Sunday in connection to the alleged rape of a Baloch widow. According to the police details, a Baloch woman, Fardos Bibi alias Gulzar, registered a … Read more
