Pakistan's Baloch Insurgency: History, Conflict Drivers, and Regional Implications

Pakistan's Baloch Insurgency: History, Conflict Drivers, and Regional Implications By Mickey Kupecz The Baloch people are a unique ethno-linguistic group spread between Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan. Throughout history they have been the victims of marginalization within their respective countries. This analysis begins by detailing the low-level insurgency the Pakistani Baloch have fought against the federal government of Pakistan since 2004. It then presents the drivers of historical conflict including tribal divisions, the Baloch-Pashtun divide, marginalization by Punjabi interests, and economic oppression. The...

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Glastonbury 2015: China issues fierce warning to organisers about booking Dalai Lama

Glastonbury 2015: China issues fierce warning to organisers about booking Dalai Lama China is against countries offering the Tibetan Buddhist monk a platform for what it believes to be his 'anti-China splittist activities' By JESS DENHAM China is not happy with Glastonburyorganisers for inviting the Dalai Lamato give a talk at the festival. Country officials have warned the Eavises that booking the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader is tantamount to offering him a platform to "engage in anti-China splittist activities",Reuters reports. Follow Saturday's Glastonbury Live Blog The 14th Dalai Lama is not scheduled to meet with officials in Britain...

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Janata Couldn’t Have Won Without RSS

Janata Couldn’t Have Won Without RSS Surajit Dasgupta swrajyamag.com On the Emergency Day, we present an untold story of India’s pacifist, media-shy right wing organisation in the backdrop of Indira Gandhi’s despotism. I have been sympathetic to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh because it is a nationalist organisation. I am not a supporter; there are aspects of its belief system — chiefly science and economics — that I disagree with. This is the first time I am dedicating an article to its wisdom and heroism. For, this is what I learnt over the past few days; it is true, but nobody has told this story before. Even the most extensive of reports on the political developments of the 1970s in WWW has the RSS’s role no more than a paragraph or a footnote. Since the early 1970s, as Indira Gandhi’s...

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