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11.03.2010
Nation and nationalism are inevitable products and producers of modernity
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Religion introduced the globalization to communities, the most communities reshape theirs culture sphere around the religion in some extend the religion itself regionalised to suit that particular groups culture. Modernity and technology have brought with it need for a bigger market, stronger and economically viable communities started to wilder their market, they dominated weaker communities. Once more globalization reintroduced to the world communities by multi-national companies. This globalization may hold light of hope for these communities whose has survived empires, colonisation, nation building process by brutal neighbours in which systematically eroded the... details >>
01.03.2010
PAKISTAN: A dangerous mixture in Balochistan
Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)
Date: 01 Mar 2010
QUETTA, 1 March 2010 (IRIN) - Significant development and poverty challenges in Balochistan Province, southwestern Pakistan, are being exacerbated by growing security concerns, according to aid workers.Decades of nationalist unrest, underdevelopment and the scaling down of UN and NGO activity have left residents feeling neglected and fearful for their safety, they say.President Asif Zardari on a recent visit to the province, which is nearly as big as Germany but has a population of only 10 million, said he was aware of the problems but urged p... details >>
27.02.2010
Baluchistan international conference Bangkok; Baluchistan today, Baluchistan tomorrow, meeting the challenges,
By M.Sarjov
Pakistan perceives the Baluch struggle in Baluchistan, as a relic of outdated traditionalism and traditional immovable Sardars are obstacles to modernization; Pakistan believes traditionalists in Baluchistan are destined to be overtaken by modernity.
Baluch tribes have had traditional rivalries among themselves. Baluch tribal chiefs have encountered each other during the colonial rule. They have been encountering each other during the Pakistan and Iranian colonial rules. Tribal movements have always been alleged as created and instigated to action by special interests that time and again masked for class privilege.
In the Baluch societies, literacy is confined to a small... details >>
10.02.2010
Pakistan is irrational state,
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
1. When a state act irrationally it is hard to predict the state action. Pakistan is irrational state, its politician behave the same ways as the criminals they recognizes no internal law.2. The state of Pakistan arose from the colonial units, which was imposed upon five self-sustain nations. In order to create ideological Islamic state, the Indian subcontinent Muslim elites, had formed Islam into political ideology mobilized the Muslim in around the hate against Hindus majority; Muslim elite in India had succeeded to create state, but they have failed to transform the religion into nationalist ideology. They are finding it a very difficult to create a homogenou... details >>
09.02.2010
US BEING SUCKED INTO PAKISTAN’S WORLD OF ILLUSIONS
February 08, 2010
B.RAMAN The leaders and large sections of the people of Pakistan tend to live in a self-created world of illusions. They have always lived in such a world ever since the birth of the country in 1947. 2. They teach their children in school that civilization was brought to the sub-continent by Islam. They grow up not knowing the history of the sub-continent before the advent of Islam 3.They have always believed that one Muslim is equal to two Hindus. They teach their soldiers that Hindus cannot fight. They believed that their alliance with the US and the US military equipment supplied to them had made them invincible and that India would never be able to defeat them. The... details >>
04.02.2010
BALOCHISTAN: The College under siege--Editorial
February 03, 2010
“Four thousand security personnel have been deployed at Degree College for four months. They have damaged class rooms which caused suspension of education activities in College”.The Baloch Students Organization (BSO-Azad) took out a mammoth protest rally in Quetta city on Tuesday to protest over the illegal occupation of the Government Degree College in Quetta by the Frontier Corps (FC). The protest rally, led by BSO Shal (Quetta) zone, Shahzaib Baloch, was attended by a large number of male and female students-cum-political activists. They started their march from Quetta Press Club and stopped in front of the Degree College on Sariab Road for a demonstration.Of course, th... details >>
01.02.2010
Understanding the Baloch insurgency
It is unlikely that the United States wants to break Pakistan up but might like to keep the option open.
February 2010
The ongoing violence in Balochistan is representative of the total alienation of the Baloch population from the Pakistani establishment. Schools in Balochistan have neither been singing the Pakistani national anthem nor flying the Pakistani national flag, instead the flag of independent Balochistan adorns most of them. A ’package’ announced by the federal government in November 2009—and rejected by Baloch nationalists—shows that Pakistani policy-makers do not understand the Baloch grievances. The proposal to hand over the proposed cantonments in the province to Fronti... details >>
31.01.2010
Balochistan’s unattended IDP crisis
COMMENT: Balochistan’s unattended IDP crisis —Malik Siraj Akbar
There are obvious reasons for the country’s security establishment to create obstacles for aid workers. The grave violations of human rights during the military operation in Balochistan are likely to be exposed to the international community once they are granted access to Balochistan’s conflict zonesThe government of Pervez Musharraf not only created an IDP (internally displaced persons) crisis in Balochistan, it also very dexterously kept the whole country in oblivion about it. Limited and restricted information was leaked about the fate of around 100,000 Baloch IDPs who were driven out of their homes during the military oper... details >>
30.01.2010
The games at Gwadar
January 29th, 2010By Arun Kumar Singh In 2009, after having done prolonged anti-piracy deployments in the Gulf of Aden for a year, a retired Chinese Admiral publicly propounded the need for the Chinese Navy to acquire a base near this strategic region so as to overcome numerous logistics-cum-maintenance problems and also allow some rest to its sailors. At present Chinese warships operating over 4,500 nautical miles (nm) from their home bases are deployed for four to six months in the Gulf of Aden, without access to ports. Given the international concern about China seeking bases in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), the Chinese government distanced itself from the retired admiral’s proposal. How... details >>
30.01.2010
Baluch nationalism is not the ambition of the few
M.SarjovIt is wrong to perceive that the Baluch nationalism is the ambition of the few. Pakistan perceive the Baluch struggle in Baluchistan, a) as relic of outmoded traditionalism, doomed to be overtaken by the unwelcome incursions of modernity, b) traditional immovable Sardars obstacle to modernization.The Baluch tribes have had traditional rivalries among themselves. The Baluch tribes have had encountered each other during the colonial rule. They have been encountering each other during the Pakistan and Iranian colonial rules. Tribal movement always perceived as created and instigated to action by special interests that time and again masked for class privilege.The very elites who were th... details >>
28.01.2010
Instability in Motion: Balochistan, Another Lesson for the Afghan Strategy
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
By David Castonguay
Balochistan is a large province in south-western Pakistan bordering both Iran and Afghanistan. Its capital Quetta is the southern tip of Pashtunistan and the presumed home of Mullah Omar the leader of the Afghani Taliban and his Shura, a collegiate group that exerts deep influence if not command and control in Afghanistan particularly in the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand. Osama bin Laden could also be holed up in Quetta or the northern part of the province.
As we shall see, Balochistan is another good example of the unintended consequences a central institution invading the legitimacy of a region’s political institutions can hav... details >>
27.01.2010
Editorial: A dark and disgraceful day in Balochistan’s history
January 26, 2010
January 25th 2010 will go down in the history of Balochistan as a dark and disgraceful day. It will be remembered as a day when the law of the land was brazenly violated by those who are paid to remain its custodian. Those responsible to guard the citizens’ lives and property were seen behaving like scoundrels by randomly torturing innocent civilians, torching public property, damaging people’s vehicles and adding to public miseries. The scenes witnessed on the roads of Quetta on Monday will continue to haunt every professional policeman. The hooligans attired in police uniform and brandishing official weapons have reasonably worried every law-abiding citizen.
Was it the h... details >>
21.01.2010
Editorial: An elusive package
The walkout by two ministers from the Balochistan Assembly session on Monday in protest against the killing of two Baloch students at a protest rally in Khuzdar last week and condemnation of the killings by senators of both the treasury and opposition benches once again focuses minds on the plight of the Baloch. When the PPP government presented a package for Balochistan, a province that has been fighting for its rights since the inception of Pakistan, many termed it a historic step. Though the Baloch nationalists rejected the package and said that it would not bring about any change in the current situation, a broad swathe of opinion thought the nationalist leaders were being overly pessimi... details >>
20.01.2010
COMMENT: Plans to sabotage the Balochistan package
Malik Siraj Akbar
Backed by powerful quarters, the FC is simultaneously penetrating Baloch society as a community police, intelligence agency, force to crush political dissent and a tool of propaganda against the Baloch nationalist leadershipSmooth implementation of the Balochistan package, as announced by Prime Minister Gilani, is extremely essential to immediately de-escalate tensions in the insurgency-stricken Balochistan province. Two months after the announcement of the package, indications have now emerged on the political milieu to foresee the sabotage of the multi-pronged Balochistan package. What Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed, General Secretary of the PML-Q, bills as “a hawkish mi... details >>
17.01.2010
The Khuzdar fatality
Couldn't this horrid Khuzdar fatality be easily averted and two precious lives saved from a tragic demise? After all, what tremors would have it caused, had the students given vent to their emotions uninterrupted over their Lyari Baloch cousins' grief? Which heavens would have crashed, had they held their protest rally to demonstrate their solidarity with the Lyari Balochs in distress? Even if some protestors were unruly, which by every account they were not, the local administration could have shown patience.
Had it displayed restraint and sagacity, the two unfortunate students, who fell to the law-enforcers' bullets, would have been still living with us and among their now-aggrieved fami... details >>
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