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Yearly Archives: 2017

The Fault in Our Foreign Policy

By: Waqar Bacha Foreign policy of a state consists of strategies that safeguard the state’s national interest, national security and economic prosperity. It reflects the state orientation in pursuance of its goals in the international system. Foreign policy depict how a particular state will interact with the other states, also it can cast an impact on other states as well. Since ...

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CPEC: A way to conflicts in Pakistan

By: Syed Anwar Zaib Plans for Pakistan-China Economic Cooperation (CPEC) in strategic spheres appear to have developed in the mid-2000s with the proposal to create an Economic Corridor from Gwadar in Balochistan to Kashgar in the Western Chinese province of Sinkiang. Two necessary conditions of the Corridor were and are development of the port at Gwadar and creating surface transport ...

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Letter: CPEC and Balochistan

It is a well-known fact that China Pakistan Economic corridor is very beneficial for China and Pakistan, it also being claimed that it is going to change the future of Balochistan.   It is important for all provinces of Pakistan but matter is that western route of CPEC should be completed first. The people who are living in underdeveloped areas ...

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Strategic importance of Balochistan

By: Sadia Sohail THE case study of Balochistan reveals many important horizons need to be discovered. The general phenomenon upholding till date by our old and current generation is the issue of separatist movement going on in Balochistan. However, unfortunately nothing had ever been taken into account by the researchers/analysts to explore and disclose the causes of this sustained agony. ...

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Protest will continue until new medical colleges are functional. BSAC

QUETTA: Baloch Students Action Committee staged a demonstration in front of Quetta press club for opening of new Medical Colleges in Balochistan on Saturday.   Students chanted slogan against the tacit role of government.  Leader of BSAC during protest briefed media that the Govt is not interested in opening of new Medical Colleges. They said, :”Govt has been making shallow ...

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Mashal’s lynching; where this society is off to?

By: Zafar Musyani Once ISIS members executed 13 teenage children who were watching a soccer match on TV. Perhaps, those Daish Elements thought that watching TV was an immoral act and this justified to them the barbaric killing of those juveniles.   And, such sort of brutalities have been committed time to time and again at different places by these terrorists ...

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BSAC warns to expand the level of hunger strike for initiating classes in new medical colleges

By: Aziz Ejaz QUETTA: Baloch Students Action Committee has warned to expand the level of hunger strike if government continues to show negligence towards initiating classes in new medical colleges of the province. The students began the strike on 10th April and activists from social society, political parties, student organizations, doctor forums and students of various institutes visited the camp ...

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Balochistan  Govt Taking Steps For Promoting Fisheries Sector:  Official

ISLAMABAD: Balochistan government is taking steps for promotion of fisheries sector so that the province could be self-sufficient in production of white meat. An official of Balochistan Fisheries Department told media Quetta on Thursday that a project for construction of a Jetty and fish harbour at Damb area of Lasbela district is being executed at a cost of more than ...

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Pakistan to come among top 25 economies under vision 2025: Ahsan

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms, Ahsan Iqbal on Thursday said that Vision 2025 aimed to put Pakistan in top 25 economies by 2025. He said according to a study published recently, Pakistan would be amongst top 20 economies by 2030 and top 10 economies by 2050. He said that with the passage of time all the critics were ...

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UN Urges ‘radical’ Investments To Meet Global Water, Sanitation Targets

UNITED NATIONS:  Against the backdrop of almost two billion people around the world relying on sources of drinking-water contaminated with faeces, the United Nations has called on countries to “radically” increase investments in water and sanitation infrastructure not only to protect their populations from deadly diseases but also to ensure that they are able to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals ...

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