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“We Don’t Have Much Time Left”
By Malik Siraj Akbar Mark Twain once said “travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.” Pakistan’s former high commissioner to United Kingdom and the current Ibn Khaldun Chair at…
Instant City
By Malik Siraj Akbar For many decades, Karachi has been revered for its gleaming lights, promising economic opportunities but feared for the unabated ethnic violence, unmanageable problems of urban planning.…
‘A civil war in Afghanistan will further destabilise Pakistan’
By Malik Siraj Akbar As the debate over the post-2014 Afghanistan gains more attention, observers fear a ‘political earthquake’ in the country where the US troops’ withdrawal coincides with the…
‘Pakistan Views India as the Perpetual Enemy”
By Malik Siraj Akbar It’s a rare opportunity to come across an American diplomat who understands the South Asian culture and speaks fluent Urdu and Hindi. Former ambassador Teresita C.…
“Islamabad´s response to Baloch political conflict is terror”
Editor’s Note: This interview originally appeared in Spanish newspaper GARA. Crisis Balochistan, an online resource on Balochistan, published the following English translation of the interview. We reproduce it with special…
‘The Pakistani Government Sanctioned Drone Attacks’
Editor’s Note: A newspaper version of this interview was published by Dawn.com, Pakistan’s most respected news source in English language. The Baloch Hal is publishing the whole text of the…
‘Musharraf always wanted the best for his people’
By Malik Siraj Akbar A veteran diplomat, Ms Wendy Chamberlin was serving as the US ambassador to Pakistan when terrorist struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September…
‘Kayani Has Real Power in Pakistan’
By Malik Siraj Akbar Sixty-eight year old Bob Woodward, an associate editor at the Washington Post, is considered one of America’s most informed investigative journalists. In 1972, his disclosure and…
‘Pak Army More Anti-American Than Radical’
By Malik Siraj Akbar Dr. Stephen Philip Cohen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, Washington DC, is a respected authority on the Pakistani army and the country’s politics. His…
“The Initiative Has to Come From The Centre”
By Beena Sarwar Does one laugh or cry at the answers given by people on the streets of Lahore when asked what they know about Balochistan? Most can’t even name…
