Opinion

Hammal Baloch Transparency is considered to be a main tenet of democratic process and in Pakistan we can only dream of such miracles. Alongside with many obstacles, exploitation of one’s power has been a major hurdle in the progress of democratic process. This misuse of power has been practiced since the inception of the state itself. From the top brass ...

Naseer Memon  Conflicts within multi-national federations are ubiquitous particularly in the post-colonial states which carry the baggage of artificially induced stream of conflicts during the centuries-long colonial divide-and-rule regimes. Third world states inherited a mosaic of socio-cultural diversity that had been competing against crumbs of resources and meager political power controlled by oppressive state structures. Colonial masters left behind amalgams ...

Asif Magsi Razzaq Sarbazi, is a Baloch journalist, documentary film maker, producer and blogger. He has vast experience in the field of journalism. He has extensively written stories, hosted TV shows, made documentaries on history, culture and political issues related to Balochistan. His works highlighted the vexatious issue of enforced disappearances in Balochistan, which has conjured a severe response for ...

Shezad Baloch Dressed in a colourful embroidered Balochi dress, 19-year-old Mariyam Suleman is a reflection of the deep blue sea that meets the shore of her hometown of Gwadar. Unassuming yet dynamic, the teenage social activist is making waves by creating awareness about the rights of women. A college student and blogger, Mariyam is teaching women English in rural areas of ...

Aziz Ejaz In the field of fiction of any literature, the short stories play a vital role articulating the mindsets according to the philosophy of people. The French, Portuguese and American are called to be the most impressive literature worldwide. The epigrammatic tales that create suspense has embellished the literatures and the modernism considerably has changed the structure of tales ...

By Mariyam Suleman Baloch Gwadar with its massive economic strategies not only for this region but for post-Soviet space as well as for Eurasia and Africa at the entrance of Omani and Persian Gulf, a route that bridges distances between nations for most of the world’s oil trade and where warm-water deep-sea port exists through out the year as a ...

Tariq Kakar Russia has always desired to rule the world just as Germany and Britain. During the Cold War era, the world was bi-polar. The superpowers were America and USSR. The proxy wars such as Vietnam and Afghanistan and other related events showed that the world countries wanted to be uni-polar. Both countries had obtained nuclear power and an arms ...

Mir Behram Baloch QUETTA: Save the Children with the financial support of The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands has successfully implemented the Balochistan Education Programme (BEP) in collaboration with the Education Department Government of Balochistan, This was stated during the closing ceremony of Balochistan Education Programme (BEP) on 20th November 2014 at Quetta Press Club. The event was ...

By Malik Siraj Akbar Viewpoint Online recently published a response to one of my Huffington Post articles, “the End of Pakistan’s Baloch Insurgency”. While I write these words, today’s (November 22)Daily Tawar, the most widely read Baloch nationalist newspaper, has a front page story quoting Khalil Baloch, the chairman of the pro-independence Baloch National Movement (BNM), expressing concern about mounting differences ...

By Safiullah Shahwani The modern world and its approaches differ from the past in more ways than one. To elaborate, it has an international governance structure, emanating from international law and unanimously agreed upon by all the civilized nations; it has international institutions, international monetary system, international trade regulatory system and above all international justice providing bodies and human rights ...