Tags : Pakistan

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

Heads of five nations condemn Pakistan based extremist groups

Faiz Baluch 5th September 2017

CHINA: The organization of world’s five major emerging economies – BRICS, for the first time in its declaration, mentioned the Pakistan based extremist groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jash-e-Mohammad and Haqqani Network. Members nations of the BRICS include Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – which forms BRICS. The organisation in their ninth annual high level […]Read More

Pakistan’s nuclear black market and North Korea

Faiz Baluch 1st September 2017

By Waris Baloch Lately, the United States of America and North Korea have been exchanging harsh language on top administration level, it seems the diplomatic temperature is increasing by the passage of time. North Korean’s President Mr. Kim Jong-un’s regime is facing tough sanctions supported by its ally China in the UN Security Council. The […]Read More