baluch pattern

What use are toothless and worthless conventions?


In the shadow of the gun (Parts I and II)


The 'Iron Hand' Mentality


Respect for mandates!

The army has the authority to ensure that all Baloch people get to see a ‘ten rupee note’ in their lifetime, though it has often enough shown them the devastating prowess of multi-million dollar F-16s, helicopter gunships and artillery shells

Myths and realities

Even the head of the military power of a civilised state may well envy the “unrestrained respect” of society for the elder of a clan. This essentially is the distinction between a people’s sardar and the Pakistani state

Torments without end

The state patronage for intolerant ‘jihadist brigades’ has slowly but gradually undermined the very foundations on which they thought they would build the edifice of the ‘Fortress of Islam’. It couldn’t have been otherwise because once intolerance and bigotry is accepted and promoted, it turns on society itself and destroys it from within and this is exactly what is happening here

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