by LAWRENCE SELLIN, PHD
The common thread in the growth of Islamic extremism in Pakistan is its four decade official policy to harness Sunni militancy to suppress ethnic separatism and religious diversity domestically and advance its regional interests, particularly against Hindu India, Shia...
Jalila Haider, an advocate by profession from persecuted community of Hazara living in Quetta, took a historic step to let the world know how wrongly they are being dealt. She raised her voice just after an incident in which...
Link: Democratic Confederalism – Abdullah Ocalan
3. Bureaucracy and the Nation-State
Since the nation-state transcends its material basis, the citizens, it assumes an existence beyond its political institutions. It needs additional institutions of its own to protect its ideological basis...
The Motherland shouldn't be for sale
Sadia Baloch
The Balochistan Post
It has not been a quite uncanny trend when powerful nations have occupied smaller nations. The world has always witnessed such cruelties at the hands of vicious states. But at the...
According to a December 12, 2017 Urdu-language news site report, during a high-level meeting presumably between Chinese and Pakistani officials held on the last day of the November Chinese Economic Summit in Hong Kong, China offered to train Pakistani security...
I. Preface
For more than thirty years the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has been struggling for the legitimate rights of the Kurdish people. Our struggle, our fight for liberation turned the Kurdish question into an international issue which affected the...
by LAWRENCE SELLIN, PHD
On September 13, 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage presented Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed, a religious hardliner and then Director of Pakistan's notorious intelligence agency, the ISI, with a list of non-negotiable...
Pakistan’s vicious policies towards Baloch women
Naz Zehri
The Balochistan Post
Women have a special status in Baloch society and are widely respected. Long lasting battles end in matter of moments when a Baloch women enters the battle ground. The history is...
A key pillar missing in Trump’s new strategy
Written by: Rahim Baloch
On August 21, 2017, the President of United State of America, in a speech, expressed his frustration on the protracted war in Afghanistan without a victory. He announced a new...
Why Vote For Waja Janmahmad Dashti?
Qambar Malik Baloch
The Balochistan Post
The participation of public in general elections held in Balochistan since early 2000s, has to a great deal been influenced by the Baloch nationalists' divide about taking part in the...