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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicBalochistan

Topic: Balochistan

India needs a clear Balochistan strategy. ‘Enemy of my enemy’ approach won’t work

Confronting only secular insurgents in Pakistan, while overlooking jihadist groups operating from Iran, will do little to change the broader strategic equilibrium. History underlines this point.

Viral video of Pakistan honour killing sparks outrage, demands for justice

While hundreds of so-called honour killings occur in Pakistan yearly with little outcry, a viral video of a couple killed over adultery in the desert sparks rare national outrage.

‘Beacon of hope for oppressed nations’—Baloch leader’s letter to PM as Parliament debates Op Sindoor

New Delhi: In a letter addressed to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior government leaders, Baloch representative Mir Yar has extended “unconditional moral...

Pakistan wants to revive jirgas—council of elders who ordered honour killing of Baloch couple

The killings have raised questions around institutional complicity, lack of enforcement, and the Pakistani government’s intent to revive a deeply flawed system.

Armed men kill 9 bus passengers after abducting them in Pakistan’s Balochistan

Passengers were abducted from multiple buses Thursday evening, said Baloch government spokesperson Shahid Rind. No organisation has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.

Pakistan fabricates terror charges, manipulates courts to frame Baloch leaders, says a Baloch group

Allegation comes after key Baloch Yakjehti Committee leaders abruptly shifted from preventive detention under Pakistan's 'order maintenance' laws to terrorism custody on 8 July.

Why do we pretend SCO still works? China runs it, shields Pakistan, sidelines India

India must now seriously reconsider its involvement in SCO, where China’s writ runs large, Pakistan’s terror networks are never condemned, and Delhi's interests are ignored.

IS Khorasan Province declares ‘war’ against Baloch groups, activists. What it means for Af-Pak

ISKP sees Baloch separatists as secular, nationalists & pro-democracy—traits it calls ‘un-Islamic’. One analyst says Pakistan can ‘technically use IS against BLA’.

Uprising in Pakistan, hope in Agra’s ‘mini Balochistan’ where families still dream of a freed homeland

Agra is home to Balochi families, many of whose elders arrived after 1947. Though they consider themselves lucky to escape persecution, yearning of freedom from Pakistan remains.

Balochis want Modi to support them against Pakistan. ‘It’ll be a masterstroke’

In an open letter shared on X, Tara Chand Baloch, a former cabinet minister in Balochistan and the president of Washington-based Baloch American Congress, accused Pakistan of perpetrating grave human rights violations in the province.

On Camera

Trump’s 4,500 troops can topple Nicolás Maduro—not fix Venezuela

The US troops could dislodge the government in Caracas, but it won’t be enough to police a country ringed by drug cartels and insurgents.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.