Balochistan

As a reporter for Pakistan's first English-language independent news outlet, Hussain began to explore critical issues with more freedom. This coverage, however, cost him a heavy price, as he began receiving threatening phone calls.

The Governor of Pakistan's lawless Balochistan province says the Army may be summoned in the provincial capital city, Quetta, after a dramatic escalation in ethnic and sectarian violence.

Currently, the Pakistani government does not have a clear policy on how to protect basic rights of communities such as the Hazaras, who face dual discrimination because of their race and also religious belief.

Threatening Pakistan with sanctions over an energy project with Iran will only worsen U.S.-Pakistan relations and make it even more likely that the country will espouse more malevolent partnerships.

The future of a stable and democratic Pakistan largely hinges upon a free and fair press.

Freedom for the Baloch people is not the primary concern for the US, but countering China is.

The Baloch ethnic minority justifiably wonders if Balochistan was actually Pakistan's internal matter, why the country's politicians did not ever unite in the past six decades to call for an end to the military operation and exploitation of the Baloch.

What began as a mere demand for maximum internal autonomy until recently, brutal state violence has taken the movement to a point of no-return where the irreconcilable young Balochs seek absolute independence.

American politicians were quick to condemn monsters like Gaddafi for human rights atrocities but are still reluctant to do the same with Pakistan. There isn't a military solution to this crisis.

Members of Congress must clearly convey their intentions when taking on potentially contentious issues that risk undermining one of the Obama administration's most important strategic partnerships. Balochistan is clearly one of those issues.

Has the current U.S. policy approach in effect given Pakistan the green light to violently suppress the Baloch without fear of reprisal?

The world's most wanted terrorist was a block away from the army garrison. This incident is not the first time the Pakistan Army has made claims that strained credulity.

The Pakistani state has misused billions in U.S. military aid and has used U.S. military hardware to oppress the Baloch people on a daily basis.

In what was dubbed as a "fair trial", eleven people with alleged links to Jundallah were hanged in southern Iran on Dec. 20.

While the Pakistani establishment is always eager to draw comparisons with India, they rebuff any such attempt when it comes to railways.

So is Pakistan a failed state, or on its way out of the morass in which it presently finds itself? I think there are three reasons for Pakistan to be optimistic.

Even as withdrawal from Iraq becomes conventional wisdom, and we continue to force Congress to end the war in Afghanistan, it's still not over. 104 months into the outrageous War on Terror, it appears we're just getting started.

The Iranian regime, with its iron-fist, has ensured a superficial calm in the Sistan & Baluchestan province; however, underneath this calm, there is massive unrest and frustration pervading.

Balochistan has all the ingredients to conjure up major trouble for U.S forces in Afghanistan. If the Taliban is present in Balochistan, Pakistani authorities need to take stern action.

None of the credible options in Afghanistan offer real chances for rolling back the insurgent reaction to our presence or reducing terrorism against the United States.

When a local ABC news crew began to interview the Indian family at the next table, I knew the militants had really awoken the... global media in a way their last foray in India did not.

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