I am extremely pissed-off after reading an article published in The Guardian by Declan Walsh today!
You would be too… at the insensitivity… the height of illiteracy… at such preposterous traditions that, for centuries, have marred the lives of so many… women and young girls in particular!
When will we evolve and shed off these inhuman, man-made […]

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Almost an year back, following the links on the Google search results for ‘Baluchistan Geography’ I happened to visit a blog titled Gedrosia. The content at the blog came as a surprise to me and I dropped an email to the blog-owner. Today, I feel myself in a better position to understand his feelings, being […]

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Source: Daily Times
Policies for FATA and Balochistan are most important and should not be formulated as a reaction to previous policies but rather on the basis of having learnt from them
Post-9/11, when the US struck the Al Qaeda-Taliban combine in Afghanistan, Pakistan became the anvil for the US-Northern Alliance hammer. While the attack was largely […]

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Literacy is the heart and life blood of development. Without it, Pakistan will remain an impoverished and a weak Third World country. If education does not prevail, the problems of Pakistan will reach at a stage which will make this country very vulnerable.
Stastically, Pakistan has made reasonable march since independence in many fields including education. […]

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Source: Daily Times
* Baloch leaders waiting for action instead of words
* Former governor proposes general amnesty for arrested Baloch
By Irfan Ali
KARACHI: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government has decided to offer a comprehensive package to Balochistan to resolve the problems of the largest province of the country.
However, Balochistan-based parties and leaders are waiting for action […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
QUETTA, Pakistan: A bomb exploded Saturday at a small hotel in southwestern Pakistan, killing one person, police said.
It was not immediately clear what kind of a bomb exploded in Kolhu, a remote town about 200 kilometers (125 miles) east of Quetta, the capital of southwestern Baluchistan province, and Ghulam Farid, an area […]

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Source: BBC News
Gunmen in Pakistan have killed three supporters of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto amid campaigning for January general elections, police say.
The attackers opened fire on an office of Mrs Bhutto’s opposition Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in a village in the south-western Baluchistan province.

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