After a long time I have finally mustered some courage to write about something which was long due. Being a Baluch journalist, it is extremely hard to report freely from Baluchistan. International media organisations and journalist rights groups think...
By Lawrence Sellin
It seems like all the players in the South Asian power game think Balochistan, Pakistan's southwest province on the Arabian Sea, is important - except the United States.
For the sake of argument, imagine that Balochistan reverts to...
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 People are tired of following the outdated rhetoric...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...
