Tags : Pakistan

US suspends most security aid to Pakistan, places it on

Faiz Baluch 4th January 2018

The Trump administration will suspend most security assistance to Pakistan, the State Department said on Thursday, expanding its retribution over militant safe havens that U.S. officials blame for ongoing violence in Afghanistan. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert, speaking to reporters, said the suspension would allow the administration, which will freeze the aid payments but not […]Read More

U.S. Might Withhold $255 Million in Aid From Pakistan

Faiz Baluch 31st December 2017

WASHINGTON — When Pakistani forces freed a Canadian-American family this fall held captive by militants, they also captured one of the abductors. United States officials saw a potential windfall: He was a member of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network who could perhaps provide valuable information about at least one other American hostage. The Americans demanded access to the […]Read More

Belt and Road U-turn: China rethinks several Pakistani projects

Faiz Baluch 16th December 2017

By F.M. SHAKIL Blame it on political chaos, corruption or a deteriorating law and order situation in Pakistan. Whatever the cause, Chinese enthusiasm for the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is waning and Beijing has taken several road, mass-transit and industrial zone projects off the table, either temporarily or permanently. Two road projects that have […]Read More

Is Chinese Militarization Of Pakistan Beginning?

Faiz Baluch 16th December 2017

By Lawrence Sellin Retired Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve According to a December 12, 2017 Urdu-language news site report, during a high-level meeting presumably between Chinese and Pakistani officials held on the last day of the November Chinese Economic Summit in Hong Kong, China offered to train Pakistani security forces to protect both the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor […]Read More

Iran meddling in Baloch freedom Movement

Faiz Baluch 15th December 2017

By Shahdad Baloch After series of interferences in the Middle East, now Iran has opted the policy of diluting the Baloch struggle for an independent homeland through her notorious ‘proxy war’ doctrine. The most recent development was witnessed after the Kurdistan referendum, where Iranian revolutionary guards backed Iraqi forces in their attempt to sabotage the […]Read More

Pakistani minister prescribes genocide to resolve security issues in Balochistan

Faiz Baluch 22nd November 2017

QUETTA: A Pakistani minister in Balochistan has said on Sunday that genocide is the only effective solution to address security issues. Home Minister, Sarfaraz Bugti, during a meeting with local elders in Dera Bugti, said: “to save the future generations and for a prosperous Pakistan, there is no other option but to carry out genocide […]Read More

ICJ urges government to engage with process for improving HR

Faiz Baluch 12th November 2017

International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) Friday urged Pakistani authorities to meaningfully engage with the process to improve the human rights situation in the country. Frederick Rawski, ICJ’s Asia Director said, “Pakistan’s past engagement with the UPR has been characterized by denial and defensive posturing. As a recently-elected member of the UN Human Rights Council, it […]Read More

Pakistan’s UN envoy shams her country by passing off the

Faiz Baluch 25th September 2017

During her speech at UN General Assembly, Pakistani diplomat Maleeha Lodhi showed a photo of a female victim from Gaza but said she was from Kashmir United Nations: In a major goof-up, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN Maleeha Lodhi on Sunday flashed a picture of an injured Gaza girl with no connection to India […]Read More

Pakistan and Iran have always cooperated against Baloch national interests:

Faiz Baluch 9th September 2017

LONDON: Baloch leader and the head of Free Balochistan Movement Hyrbyair Marri said in a statement from London that the occupying states of Iran and Pakistan have always closely cooperated against the Baloch national cause in order to counter and eliminate the Baloch freedom struggle. He said that both states were equally involved in occupying […]Read More

Pakistan’s biggest bank kicked out of US, fined over terror

Faiz Baluch 8th September 2017

By AFP | Sep 08, 2017, 03.24 PM IST NEW YORK: US banking regulators ordered Pakistan’s Habib Bank to shutter its New York office after nearly 40 years, for repeatedly failing to heed concerns over possible terrorist financing and money laundering, officials said Thursday. Habib, Pakistan’s largest private bank, neglected to watch for compliance problems […]Read More