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UNPO Conference on Balochistan and Self Determination, February 2013
In 1948 the independent state of Kalat, under duress, acceded to the newly created country of Pakistan. Since then the Baluch have fought five insurgencies in an effort to secure the rights promised them in various treaties with both the British government and Pakistan.
  • ANALYSIS / HISTORY

  • thumbnail imageBalochistan: two attacks, two problems

    The Ziarat Residency attack is perhaps a watershed event in the Baloch nationalist-Pakistan relations but it is not exactly a 9/11 equivalent as claimed by some
  • thumbnail imageBaloch Hal Editorial: Why Pakistan Should Divorce Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

    The city of Quetta observed a day of mourning on Sunday against the killing of more than 24 people in Saturday's coordinated attacks on a university bus and the Bolan Medical College Hospital. When a political party within the ruling coalition, such as the Pashtunkhawa Milli Awami Party, calls for a strike, it implicitly shows the government's helplessness to grapple with hard challenges.
  • thumbnail imageBaloch Hal Editorial: Pakistan's "Drone Operations" in Balochistan

    In a recent interview with the B.B.C. Urdu, veteran Baloch nationalist leader Senator Hasil Khan Bizenjo rightly compared Pakistan's "˜kill and dump' operations in Balochistan with America's drone-strikes taking place in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). He told a Pakistani audience that if drones, as argued by the government authorities, were "counterproductive" in the war on terror and causing more militants then the bullet-riddled dead bodies of the missing Baloch political activists were doing exactly the same job in Balochistan.
  • thumbnail imageGone missing: Two months on, family still struggles to find Baloch journalist

    KARACHI: Haji Abdul Razzaq Baloch, 42, made sure he attended every protest held for the people who went missing in Balochistan. "These are our brothers who have gone missing. Some day when I would be gone, you would have to do the same," the tall man with a bushy moustache would say.
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  • DEVELOPMENT / GLOBAL ISSUES

  • thumbnail imageGwadar and "˜the great game'

    Certain western capitals that tow US foreign policy understand this great game well and extend hospitality to Baloch nationalist politicians, as do the US senators who sponsor resolutions in their senate, sidestepping the legally vexing question of how Nasir Khan I could, in the first place, "˜grant' Gwadar to Al Bu Sai'd of Muscat who was a "˜refugee' in the territory of the Khan of Kalat in the 18th century - an act for which Pakistan had to pay $3 million nearly a century later.
  • thumbnail imageGwadar Port: China's Midday Robbery

    The Pakistani government has finally decided to take away the control of the Gwadar Port from the Port of Singapore Authority (P.S.A.) and hand it over to China. On Monday, President Asif Ali Zardari formally presided over a signing ceremony of handing over the Gwadar port to China Overseas Ports Holding Company Limited.
  • thumbnail imageCommunity Welfare Development Society Balochistan

    The Community Welfare Development Society is a self-directed not-for-profit organization initiating in the rural as well as urban areas of Balochistan. On October 2002 CWDS was registered under the Voluntary Social Welfare Agencies (Registration & Control) Ordinance 1961 (XL VI of 1961) as a non-profit organization dedicated to rural development in the province of Balochistan.
  • thumbnail imageCrowd-sourced Icelandic Constitution

    Due to great interest from various organisations and individuals abroad, The Constitutional Society in Iceland has obtained and published an independent English translation of The Constitutional Bill delivered by The Constitutional Council 29 July 2011.
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