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Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
By: Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Politics is all about perception, if people believe that a policy is detrimental to their interests then not even a deluge of spin, arranged news conferences, full page advertisements and assurances by its advocates is going to change that perception.
A majority of people in Balochistan view mega-projects with extreme suspicion and certainly not without a reason. The gaping divide between the proclaimed intentions and reality completely undermines the already zero credibility of government's assurances in Balochistan regarding the people and its vast resources.
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31.07.2011 - COMMENT: Saggaan ra kushaada-and, ‘o’ sing ra basta
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Half-hearted denials and condemnations are not going to appease t...) details >>
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24.07.2011 - COMMENT: Aung San Suu Kyi: the beacon — I
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Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 and ha...) details >>
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24.07.2011 - “COMMENT: Rolling back the tsunami
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The state, its institutions and luminaries here are complicit in ...) details >>
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Sanaullah Baloch
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07.01.2011 - Judiciary, parliament silent on Baloch issues
(There are nearly three hundred and fifty arms manufacturing factories in Federally Adminis...) details >>
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25.11.2010 - Exploitation of Mineral Wealth
(By Sanaullah Baloch UNITED Nations Security Council Resolutions 1173, 1176 and particularl...) details >>
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24.10.2010 - From Chile to Chagai
(By Sanaullah Baloch Saturday, 23 Oct, 2010
CHILE’S remarkable rescue operation of 33 tra...) details >>
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Aziz Baloch
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14.04.2009 - A Message to Honorable Leaders of the Baloch "Nation"
(The day Pakistani forces forcefully occupied our homeland March 1948, the entire Baloch na...) details >>
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13.11.2008 - A Voice of a Baloch
(By Aziz Baloch
The honorable and prominent Baloch leader, Nawab Khair Baksh Marri in his ...) details >>
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27.09.2008 - Two Women’s Tragedies in Balochistan: Honor Killing and Rape.
(By Aziz Baloch
On July 2008 three Baloch girls fell victim to an “honor killing” in the r...) details >>
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ANALYSIS: Strategic mess
Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The people who are the true ‘strategic assets’ are neglected by the ruling elite, who go for delusionary ‘strategic assets’ and ‘strategic depth’ and invariably end up in a ‘strategic mess’ “A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion. It ruins itself; and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain” — Jacques Anatole Thibault (1844-1924). States bent upon denying rights to the people ensure that a situat... | author details | all articles |
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