Quetta, Jan 2 (IANS) Two more Baloch civilians were forcibly disappeared by Pakistani forces amid a growing wave of enforced disappearances across Balochistan, a leading human rights organisation said on Friday. Condemning the incidents, Paank, the Baloch National Movement’s Human Rights Department, mentioned that Hamdan, a native of Dasht in Kech District, was reportedly taken from his residence in Karachi on December 30 by the state intelligence agencies.The rights body described the act as “a…
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Kabul, Dec 29 (IANS) The Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict exposes the limits of China’s diplomatic ceiling — effective in financing infrastructure, sustaining political partnerships, and providing strategic cover to allied governments, but constrained when conflict management requires confronting allies, engaging fragmented actors, or dealing with nationalist politics resistant to “transactional solutions”, a report said on Monday. It added that unless China reconsiders the assumptions guiding i…
Quetta, Dec 29 (IANS) At least 15 Pakistani soldiers have been killed in a series of coordinated attacks across Balochistan over the past few weeks as three Baloch armed groups — the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) and Baloch Republican Guards (BRG) — have claimed responsibility for strikes in several regions across the province, including Kech, Panjgur, Turbat, Surab and Naseerabad, local media reported on Monday. In a statement, BLA spokesperson Jeeyand Bal…
New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) The year saw Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir consolidating unprecedented authority over the civilian government without staging a physical armed coup like earlier instances, yet reshaping constitutional arrangements and foreign alignments while domestic unrest and economic strain deepen.Even as the General rose to be a Field Marshal without exhibiting any valour on the field, the country continued to spiral down, with its internal security and economy remaining fraught. P…
Washington, Dec 23 (IANS) Tara Chand, President of Baloch American Congress, on Tuesday slammed Pakistan’s Punjab province Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif over the development of the region, stating that her claims are built on the blood and lives of people in Balochistan.Taking X, Chand said, “Chief Minister of Pakistani Punjab, Maryam Nawaz, you make fiery claims about development in Punjab, boasting of projects like the Green Line and the Orange Line. You know very well that this so-called…