Opinion

By  Hasrat Iqbal The Federal government  and establishment are planning to arrange a T20 match in Balochistan not in cricket but in bureaucracy. According to a news report the federal government tends to recruit 20 Baloch officers from ARMY via public service commission and deploy them in different departments of province Balochistan. The purpose behind this generosity is said to ...

By Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur Nations are best educated through a truthful presentation of their history, traditions and culture but this becomes well nigh impossible when they are colonized because the colonizer distorts history to make way for its narrative which it wants to superimpose on the psyche of the colonized nation to make slavery look dignified and therefore more ...

By Mariyam Mohammed Suleman  Gwadar as one of the most important districts of the country is imperiled by the land erosion from 2007. Eroding land has troubled particularly the fishermen along with the inhabitants.  Being the longest coast line in country with 600 kilometers, district Gwadar is home to thousands of people and a major hub of fisheries as the ...

  By Iqbal Hasrat Generally Pakistan and Afghanistan are considered inseparable states due to their historical, religious, cultural, linguistic, trade and ethnic linkages. The relation is so deep that once Ahmed karzai, president of Afghanistan, professed in his visit to India that Pakistan and Afghanistan were “identical twins”. However, the modern bilateral relationships face great turbulence because of rising influence of ...

The new year 2014 began   with a terror act in Balochistan, when a suicide car  bomb attack targeted   a passenger bus of Shia Pilgrims on Wednesday. At least two people were killed and 26 others injured in the attack according to the sources the bus, being escorted by a police van, was attacked in Akhterabad area of Quetta. The injured ...

By Mariyam Mohammed Suleman                                           The media is generally referred to various means of communication such as television, radio, newspapers, websites, magazines or books. The term “media” can be used as a collective word for press. From a couple of years, the role of media in Balochistan has been discussed on various TV talk shows, radio channels and newspapers. Still the ...

By Muhammad Akbar Notezai The Baloch families’ long march, led by Mama Qadir Baloch (70 year old man and the vice president of an long march in sindhadvocacy group named Vice for Baloch Missing Persons), commenced from the Quetta Press Club on October 27, 2013.  After travelling 27 days and covering 780 kilometers on foot, the Baloch long march participants, ...

By Aziz Ejaz The missing person’s case of Baloch entering in an appalling situation even after the UN delegation visit to Pakistani courts and Balochistan to help in resolving of the cases. After the Musharaf regime the past five years were worse for Balochistan as thousands of Baloch has been abducted and killed. During the Musharaf era the abduction of ...

By Bari Baloch  Climatic change and long drought not only dashed the dreams of Dad Muhammad but also inflicted an irreparable financial losses on him when his lush green apple garden starching over 80-acres, in Dasht area of Mastung district of Balochistan, dried before his very eyes. Dad Muhammad, 75, a resident of Nushki district always got dejected whenever he ...

By Qaisar Shehzad Farooq Prof. James Petras argues with the reference of PEW Research Center report that there is a wide gap of opinion between elites and public about US Imperial Intervention in World Conflicts. By a vast margin (52% to 38%) the public agree that the US “should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along ...