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Balochistan

Pakistan vs Democracy

Mohammed Ajeeb London: Yesterday when I was browsing through my archive I came across a quite lengthy article which was written by me about 10 years ago and published in the International Daily News London in two instalments. It…

Dignity on sale for a bag of flour

Asem Mustafa Awan
Islamabad: They are poor. They are hungry. They have very little money even to buy a bag of flour. They suffer indignity of standing in queue for hours to receive a bag of flour at a government rate.
They live

Refuse to be defeated

Asem Mustafa Awan
Islamabad: The three siblings on the donkey cart are the trash pickers. They symbolise hope and pain. Hope: They don’t beg and they don’t steal. They have not given up on life. Instead, they have embraced hard toil for

Abrogation of Obligation to Provinces

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: The governments of Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan have complained of serious financial difficulties due to non-payment of arrears and dues by the federal government.…

The Fishermen Revolution 

Badil Baloch Quetta: After decades of persecution, oppression and exploitation; the fishermen of Gwadar resorted to a sudden up rise, sending a wave of serious concerns to their exploiters and oppressors. Gwadar district has around a…