It’s been a rough year. The only progress on the political front in recent years, like always, has been the same old reactionary public mood over the events. Nothing has changed. People are tired of following the outdated rhetoric...
Balochistan is one of the most resource rich regions in central Asia. Numerous minerals and metals, including Antimony, Copper, Gold, Iron, Lead – Zinc, Chromite, Manganese, Fluorite, Gypsum/anhydrite, Baryte, Limestone and Coal among many others, are found in large...
by Lawrence Sellin
The Pentagon is spinning its wheels in Afghanistan, continuing a questionable counterinsurgency and nation-building strategy because, quite literally, it knows that it won't work, but cannot think of anything else to do.
It will not succeed because the...
Was Iran Behind The Kandahar Bombing That Killed UAE Diplomats?
LAWRENCE SELLIN
Retired Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve
It was not your typical Taliban improvised explosive device.
On January 10, 2017, a sophisticated radio-detonated, three-compartmental, military-grade RSX-TNT bomb, hidden days before in furniture after...
Jyotsna Mehra:
It has been well over a year since Prime Minister Narendra Modi had the country frantically speculating over his (yet another) “unprecedented” move – his explicit invocation of the Baloch cause in his Independence Day address.
Shortly thereafter, the...
Written by: Anwar Baloch
Baloch struggle and the freedom movement have always been out of the world’s sight throughout history. This was continuously providing more advantages and a dominant position to the Pakistan Punjabi establishment in their role to suppress the...
by Mandav B Baluch
The Balochistan freedom movement has finally found its way into the world of the known. And for a fact, the Baloch Republican Party and co has played an extra ordinary role in this and put a...
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...
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...
by LAWRENCE SELLIN, PHD
While accepting billions of American dollars in military and economic aid, Pakistan has been slowly bleeding the U.S. to death in Afghanistan through its support of the Taliban, Haqqani Network and other terrorist groups.
It is Pakistan's...