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Gone in 300 Seconds: On the Land Grab in Balochistan
The spineless and pusillanimous members of the selected Balochistan Assembly handed over 9000 acres (36.42 sq km) of the protected Hingol National Park land to the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) in record 300 seconds giving away 30 acres per second. Made me wonder how much time would they take to hand over…
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Class Struggle
That for many – billions – life isn’t Either easy, a bed, a house furnished, or food in the stomach, it isn’t a laugh an orgasm or smiles its hard, like ground constantly, over centuries, pounded. its sick – like bills that pile up and up and up and up. It smells of unemployment and…
Poetry
The Gun-Slave Cycle
The prisoner sits across from me in the cramped airless cubicle behind the plexiglass hands gently folded during this middle passage between life and death wrists ringed by steel forged by Smith & Wesson It is an old story of guns and slavery Into the lower decks of the ships the European merchants loaded chests…
POLITICS
Is Britain complicit in human rights violations in Balochistan?
Balochistan, bordering Iran to the West and Afghanistan to the North, was an independent country before the British attacked and invaded it in 1839. The Baloch ruler, at the time, Mir Mehrab Khan along with hundreds of Baloch fighters died while defending Balochistan. Later the British draw two artificial lines (borders), the Goldsmith Line (1871)…
POLITICS
Journalism Between ‘Red Lines’
Journalists in balochistan are not journalists.  They are jugglers and acrobats.  Dancing to the tune of various groups.  Let me state it more clearly, Journalists in Balochistan have to tread a fine line vaguely defined by religious militant outfits, nationalist separatists and operatives of intelligence agencies. Each group has its own red lines that if…
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A Case for a ‘Feminist foreign Policy’ for South Asia
A Case for a ‘Feminist foreign Policy’ for South Asia J. Ann Tickner begins her essay Hans Morgantheau’s Principles of Political Realism: A Feminist Reformulation with “international politics is a man’s world, a world of power and conflict in which warfare is a privileged activity”. In all wars or conflicts it is women, who bear the real…