Tags : Pakistan

CPEC: A death warrant for the Baloch nation

Faiz Baluch 13th May 2018

By Tranag Baluch You might have witnessed Pakistan army taking Balochistan based journalists to China tour and, accommodating, offering them luxury apartments, expensive iPhones and Laptop notebooks. You also might have seen the photo sessions of Pakistan army’s generals in occupied Balochistan staging the surrender dramas of Baloch freedom fighters. But, you seldom see Pakistani […]Read More

Exclusive: U.S. pushes motion to put Pakistan on global terrorist

Faiz Baluch 14th February 2018

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The United States has put forward a motion to place Pakistan on a global terrorist-financing watchlist with an anti-money-laundering monitoring group, according to a senior Pakistani official. Pakistan has been scrambling in recent months to avert being added to a list of countries deemed non-compliant with terrorist financing regulations by the Financial […]Read More

Balochistan: China has commercial, military interests in Gwadar: US think-tank

Faiz Baluch 8th February 2018

(BW News Webdesk) WASHINGTON: China has both commercial and military interests in the Pakistani port of Gwadar, the US think-tank community has told lawmakers, but Islamabad of late is realising that the Chinese investment there is more about its own economic and strategic interests. The strategic Gwadar Port in Balochistan province is being built by […]Read More

Free Balochistan Movement protest against China-Pakistan joint venture in Balochistan

Faiz Baluch 29th January 2018

LONDON: The Free Balochistan Movement (FBM) organised a two-day protest outside Grosvenor Hotel in London’s Park Lane area against the sale of Baloch lands in Gwadar by a property dealer ‘One Investments’. The participants of the protest were carrying placards and banners against China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, the sale of Baloch lands in Gwadar and human […]Read More

Free Balochistan Movement to protest against sale of Balochistan lands

Faiz Baluch 24th January 2018

LONDON: The Free Balochistan Movement has announced to organise a two-day protest against the official global launch of the international port city Gwadar by ‘One Investments’ on 27 & 28 January in London. The ‘One Investments’ is trying to lure investors to “securely invest with China’s 4th Largest Construction Company” in Gwadar Balochistan. The Free […]Read More

After Kabul attack:US tells Pakistan to arrest or expel Taliban

Faiz Baluch 24th January 2018

Washington: The US has asked Islamabad to immediately arrest or expel Taliban leaders who are carrying out terror activities across the border in Afghanistan and prevent them from using Pakistani territory to support its operations. A White House statement in this regard came days after the Taliban claimed responsibility for a major terror attack at the […]Read More

China in Balochistan: CPEC and the Shifting Security Landscape of

Faiz Baluch 8th January 2018

By Harrison Akins Graduate Research Fellow Howard, H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, University of Tennessee In 1962, Henry Kissinger, then serving as a consultant for the National Security Council, was dispatched by President Kennedy on a fact finding mission to Pakistan, a Cold War ally. During his visit, a reporter probed him for […]Read More

China to build naval base in Gwadar Balochistan

Faiz Baluch 5th January 2018

Beijing plans to build its second offshore naval base near a strategically important Pakistani port following the opening of its first facility in Djibouti on the Horn of Africa last year. Beijing-based military analyst Zhou Chenming said the base near the Gwadar port on the Arabian Sea would be used to dock and maintain naval […]Read More

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