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Re-silencing Balochistan? | TQ Voices

Today, a roundtable on "Unsilencing Balochistan" to be held on Thursday 9 April at LUMS was cancelled due to state intervention.
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Trampled Rights in Balochistan

Enforced disappearances are now accompanied by widespread search operations and encounters, in an expanded and intensified state offensive in Balochistan.
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(Mis)Understanding Balochistan

Jun 2013

Analysts betray their bias when they treat attacks by the LeJ and the BLA as the same.
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Why Trouble Rules Balochistan

Governor's rule has multiplied the problems in Balochistan instead of fixing them.
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The January 18th Army Operation in Balochistan | Q&A

By M.A.
Jan 2013

Yesterday (January 18, 2013), the Frontier Corps carried out a coordinated army operation in Mastung, Quetta’s Sariab Road and New Kahan neigborhood as well as parts of Dera Bugti in Balochistan. Tanqeed speaks to Malik Siraj Akbar to get an update on the operation, and how it relates to the recent imposition of Governor’s...
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Turning Balochistan Into A Cemetery

This is not the first time that a military operation has been carried out by the Frontier Corps (FC), a paramilitary force, in southern Balochistan’s Mashky, Awaran District. The FC launched another operation just two months ago. Unlike the current offensive, this earlier, mid-October operation was denounced from the floor of the provincial assembly...
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On Balochistan, Elections, and Mengal

Oct 2012
On Balochistan, Elections, and Mengal

The government has denied any military operation in Balochistan. Its opponents – from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Nawaz Sharif to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf’s Imran Khan keep talking about ‘free and fair elections’. As the first and most important step, they say, to ‘fixing’ Balochistan. There has been a lot of theories on why...
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