The official inauguration of the Gwadar International Airport, initially scheduled for August last year, was delayed multiple times due to security concerns in Balochistan.
Even though over 20% of Pakistan's military is Pashtun and they are well represented in the bureaucracy, the gap between the Punjab-dominated state and the Pashtun people is widening.
Militant group Baloch Liberation Army took responsibility & claimed many more attacks, including one on a major paramilitary base, though Pakistani authorities have yet to confirm these.
Baloch people have been protesting 'continued oppression by Pakistan state'. Their demands include stopping use of force, releasing arrested participants, opening highways of Balochistan.
Balochistan govt says there were 'unconfirmed rumours of firing by security forces' in Matsung, according to media reports. Baloch National Gathering was due to be held in Gwadar Sunday.
Makran Commissioner Saeed Ahmed Umrani told the security forces had foiled an armed terrorist attack at the PNS Siddique Naval Air Base, one of the biggest naval air stations in the country.
Activists like Mahrang Baloch are trying to seek international human rights support against the 'pressure created by the state to sabotage the Baloch struggle'.
Ventures by Japan, South Korea and Taiwan illustrate how the race for REE security is accelerating, powered by both geopolitical tension and industrial strategy.
ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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