Written By: Shakoor Baloch
Baloch have been kept forced slaves since their motherland Balochistan was occupied by foreign Armies. In 1947 when Balochistan got independence and it stayed independent for nine months, Pakistan’s founding father, Muhammad Ali Jinnah wanted Khan...
By LAWRENCE SELLIN, PHD
Like physical education majors, Army officers often get extra credit when they are able to muster a modicum of intellectual rigor, which could be the case for then Major H.R. McMaster, who wrote "Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon...
by Jed Babbin
Come hell or Blackwater, nothing is about to change — unless…
About a month ago, President Trump met with his national security team — Defense Secretary James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and National Security Advisor Lt....
Abstract
History testifies that the weaker States have always served as a buffer zone among formidable confronting States. The weaker States have been exploited to fulfil the vested interests of powerful nations.
This Article investigates how and why Balochistan territory was...
LAWRENCE SELLIN
Retired Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve
That astute observation is not mine, but Indrani Bagchi’s writing for the Indian Economic Times:
Pakistan could end up as a version of China’s North Korea exercise in South Asia, kind of like screen villain Ajit’s...
Stated simply, one gigantic, transnational jihadi region in South Asia will come to exist.
Let me begin by describing what, in the news media, appears to be two different events, but are really the same thing.
On July 23, 2016, the...
By Lawrence Sellin
The United States, NATO and the Afghan government should not be trying to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table, but Pakistan.
Located about 100 kilometers from the Afghanistan border in Kharan, Balochistan is one of the hundreds of...
Nestled deep in the midst of towering mountains, Quetta’s historic tourist point Hanna Lake has completely dried up. Cracks have started to appear in the lakebed as there has been no rainfall here for months. “The natural cycle of...
By Lawrence SellinPakistan has proved itself to be an unreliable US ally in Afghanistan and in the battle against Islamic extremism. The time is long overdue for alternative courses of action, including ramping up attacks on terrorist targets in...
If you browse through the latest headlines about the now month-long border stand-off between India and China, you might think the Asian rivals are teetering on the brink of an armed conflict.
The rhetoric is full of foreboding and menace....
