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Fragile Federation of Pakistan

Rehaan Baloch This is the first article of two-part series on this topic. Pakistan is a federal state with four provinces. Federal system is adopted in order to cope with the problems of heterogeneity, multi nationalism and multi cultural nature of Pakistani society. Federalism was the ultimate choice of the founder of Pakistan because it was impossible for a unitary state ...

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Plight of Hindus in Balochistan

Raza Baloch Hindu community has always remained an integral part of Pakistan. After the partition of subcontinent majority of Hindu population migrated to India, while those who remained in Pakistan adjusted with Muslim population peacefully. Hindu community as like others is patriotic Pakistani. Among them, many big names from this community served Pakistan in distinguished positions. For instance, Justice Rana ...

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Charsada Attack and The Pashtun Question

Najeeb Kakar The coldblooded massacre of 26 Pashtun students including the faculty members and security guards left yet another murky day in the troubled province. The attack on Bacha Khan University is not less than that of the preceding assault on Army Public School Peshawar in December 2014. However, the bloodshed has once again left thousands of hearts with unfathomable ...

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Life of an Ordinary Polio Worker

Rehaan Dashti It is said that U.N is the biggest champion of labor rights in the world and working in order to ameliorate the living conditions of labor force by announcing universal charter which is appreciated by every quarter. It is disappointing that despite various conferences and protocols there have been no practical and concrete steps taken by the champions ...

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Do We Need New Social Contract?

Habibullah Khan Nasar The origin of the ‘social contract’ can be traced back to the point of time in human life when people had successfully evolved the concept of ‘living together’. The basic manifestation of their evolved tradition of ‘living together’ was first institutionalized into the configuration of ‘family’. The constitutional provisions of the first social contract included security of ...

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CPEC and Thirsty Gwadar

By Yousaf Ajab Baloch The recent inauguration of groundbreaking projects of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in Balochistan by Prime Minister of Pakistan and the severe crisis of water in Gwadar and lack of   basic facilities of life mirror a very pathetic state of Baloch as well as the systemized discrimination of Islamabad against Balochistan lasting for decades. Recently, while addressing at ...

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Balochistan Conundrum in Backdrop of CPEC

Najeeb kakar The horrible killing of at least 14 people mostly the police personnel in Balochistan’s Capital, guarding the polio team left another atrocious day in the already troubled province. This single terrorist attack on polio team has shaped the unsafe waves of fear and dread in the city among the people. TTP claimed the responsibility of the attack, to ...

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Social and Economic Infrastructure of Balochistan

Adil Nazeer Hassni The Social and Economic Infrastructures are basic essential services that should be put in place to enable development to occur. Socio-economic development can be facilitated and accelerated by the presence of social and economic infrastructure. The Social roads and systems of Balochistan have great externalities. The most important Social base structures in Balochistan are Education, being healthy, ...

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Defective Public Sector Development Paradigm in Balochistan

Habibullah Khan Nasar Does well-directed, thoroughly prioritized, transparent, and efficient development model constitute an important component of ‘lean and clean’ governance? There should be no denying of this perspective. Whereas, to everyone’s ill-fortune and discredit, the design and saga of development in Balochistan do not reflect what an ideal or at least workable model of development may desire. Like Siamese ...

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The Way Forward for Baloch Nationalists

Salam Buledi Another eye-catching entry was seen by Akhtar Mengal after his six points in Islamabad in the form of all party conference regarding China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). BNP Mengal is making its good place among Baloch masses and Balochistan based political parties, as well as other progressive political parties throughout country. The threat of being converted into minority, ...

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