Malik Siraj Akbar speaks at NED"/>Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow Malik Siraj Akbar offered insight into the ongoing conflict in Balochistan, Pakistan.
To counter what China is doing in Pakistan, the United States should play hardball by supporting the movement for an independent Baluchistan along the Arabian Sea and working with Baluch insurgents to oust the Chinese from their budding naval base at Gwadar. Beijing wants its inroads into Gilgit and Baltistan to be the first step on its way to an Arabian Sea outlet at Gwadar.
Basically, we want a country whose leaders are elected democratically, where religion is a private issue which doesn't play a role in the state affairs and where women, every creed and ethnicity share equal rights.
During the 1973-1977 army action in conflict zones, thousands of innocent people were killed, tens of thousands were internally displaced
THE attention the Supreme Court (SC) has focused on the Balochistan conflict and the human rights abuses being committed there raised the expectations of the affected population.
Let this day be a reminder that if we fail to unite as a nation, we are doomed to remain disunited as slaves.