Opinion

Mariyam Mohammed Suleman Walking on the wet sand of the West bay of Gwadar with friends on a Sunday morning in 2006, 11 year-old Sammi, as a new 6th grader, was sharing her excitement for her new class with her friends. All of a sudden she heard screams of people and saw lots of men with resentment coming out of ...

By Adnan Aamir Sit-ins of both Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) are taking place in Islamabad for last 9 days. The call for revolution by Tahir ul Qadri and the demand to dissolve Nawaz Sharif government, on pretext of election riggings, by Imran Khan has created a storm in Political landscape of Pakistan. There is no doubt ...

By Haji Mohammad Barech Democracy in this current scenario considered as the most enviable, Usher and triumphant form of government across the globe. US president Woodrow Wilson and his famous slogans “World is safe for Democracy” is still omnipresent across the globe. Although, the land of pure people has little experience about it, particularly the roots of Democratic process in ...

By Hassan Baloch I belong from Chaghi which is an impoverished district of Balochistan. For the last 15 months our member of National Assembly (MNA) is missing from our district. Abdul Rahim Mandokhail is the MNA for NA-260 Quetta-Noshki-Chaghi. He was elected MNA from this constituency after controversial elections on 11th may last year. Since then he has not bothered to ...

By Sanaullah Baloch After the rigged and engineered elections of 2013, many ill-informed political commentators generated loads of optimism about a heaven-like future for Balochistan. This worrisome trend of fact-hiding and truth-making has continued to dominate Pakistan’s media and political landscape. Many thanks to Islamabad and its elite as their long-planted seeds of sectarianism and extremism, including a very deliberate ...

By Gulmina Bilal Ahmad What is on the cards for the thousands of Pakistani citizens marching towards the Prime Minister (PM) House in Islamabad? Freedom from the oppressive regime or a revolution that will change the whole system? No one has a definite answer. On August 14, 2014, thousands of protestors/citizens of Pakistan started marching towards Islamabad, led by Mr ...

By Haji Mohammad Barech Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif inaugurated Quaid-e-Azam residency at Ziarat on the Birth day of Pakistan – 14 August. This historical place was destroyed and responsibility claimed by Baloch insurgents group in 2013. Likewise, Balochistan faces insurgency in West, South and East. In the same way, unequivocal issue of missing person has also garbled the provincial government ...

By Mariyam Suleman Baloch “Enlighten me with the flames of my youth!” echoed a voice around the mountains of the province forming 43.6% area of the country. The voice travelled from the barren arid deserts to the 760 kilometers long coastline, from the vast plains of scattered population to the mineral rich districts and from a few urban and to ...

By Saher Baloch IT couldn’t be more ironic. As we enter Marri Camp, near Shalkot — an area outside Quetta playing host to an estimated 100,000 members of the Marri tribe — songs lauding the land that is Pakistan start playing on the radio. At a nearby peak, flags installed by the separatists fly high. A feeling of being completely ...

By Shehzad Baloch A few months ago, the director general of public relations (DGPR) in Balochistan issued notices to 135 daily newspapers based in Quetta, seeking detailed information about their employees and all the official equipment they use for publishing papers. Once the data was collated, it was surprising to learn that more than 100 newspapers are published from Quetta ...