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Economic Sustainability: Ban Smuggling in Balochistan

Muhammad Shah Economic stability for any state is essential in order to reduce poverty, inflation, and increase production to retain economic growth in an economy. Certain exports and imports of commodities of Balochistan with neighboring countries are operated in an illegal way. This results in suffering of huge losses in terms of generating tax revenue, price hiking, shortage of commodities, ...

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‘Rising Balochistan’ Seminar Held in Quetta

Adnan Aamir Quetta – Rising Balochistan seminar was held in Serena Hotel Quetta, on Thursday. Seminar was organized by the Balochistan chapter of Alumni Association of National Security Workshop (AAN) with the support of Balochistan government. Governor of Balochistan, Muhammad Khan Achakzai was the chief guest of the seminar and delivered the opening address about how Balochistan is developing and ...

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Balochistan: The Curse of Natural Resources

Naila Tasneem What comes to our minds when we think of Balochistan; killings, kidnappings, torture, missing persons, separatist movement, proxy wars involving sectarian roots, backwardness etc. But is that all there is to it or are we missing out on something more important. The largest province of Pakistan in terms of its physical size, constituting approximately 44% of the total ...

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Booming Kite Industry Of Weifang

Adnan Aamir Weifang – Weifang city located in Shandong province of China has a booming Kite industry, learnt The Balochistan Point. Dubbed as Kite capital of the world, Weifang is the largest producer of kites in the world. Meicun Village situated in Fangzi district of Weifang is the largest Kite producing Village in China with 87 Kite production factories. Entire ...

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Interview: Fully Operational Gwadar Port Under Chinese Control Upsets Key Regional Players

Interview by Adnan Aamir Syed Fazl-e-Haider is a development analyst and a freelance columnist based in Pakistan. Areas of his expertise include Pakistan-China economic ties, Balochistan economy and Gwadar Port. He is the author of many books including “Economic Development of Balochistan”, which has been recommended at Ph.D and post-graduate level in two universities of Balochistan in the syllabi of ...

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Globalization And Neo-Liberalism

Sheikh Naqeebullah Background and Genesis “Globalization”, if to be understood from post-modernist’s lens, is not much distinct in nuance to “Colonization”, and bears a very comprehendible interpretation that is “Inter-Dependence” among states over the globe. An academic insight by “Postmodernists” and “Neo-Marxists” was to deconstruct the “Discourse” of Globalization, a very nascent phenomenon, and trace the legacy of colonization. We ...

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Balochistan Government Is Merely A Salary Distribution Agency Not A Welfare Government: Siddique Baloch

Interview by Adnan Aamir Siddique Baloch is the Editor-in-chief of Balochistan express and Azadi newspaper. He is a veteran journalists and the pioneer of English journalism in Balochistan. Born in 1940, Lala Siddique Baloch, as He is commonly called, has been associated with journalism since 1966. Balochistan: It’s Politics and Economics is the title of the book of Mr. Siddique ...

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