The separatist insurgency that has been shaking Paksitan’s Baluchistan province–strategically bordering Afghanistan–since the beginning of the year seemed to have come out of nowhere. Finally, a Jan. 29 account in the BBC sheds some light. It seems the natural gas… Read moreGas operations at root of Baluch insurgency
More violence in Pakistan’s semi-autonomous Northwest Tribal Areas. This time rival clans in a land dispute in Miranshah, North Waziristan, decided to settle scores with live fire in the middle of a crowded market, leaving seven dead. (Bahrain’s Gulf Daily… Read morePakistan: unstable, nuclear
Baluchi guerillas shut down Pakistan’s top gas field with rocket attacks on the pipeline. Why is nobody paying attention? ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Supplies from Pakistan’s main gas field have been fully restored, officials said on Saturday 11 days after a… Read morePakistan guerillas hit pipeline
If it hits the fan in Pakistan, Bush’s victory in neighboring Afghanistan could be a Pyrric one… From AP: QUETTA, Pakistan – Three rockets fired by unidentified assailants landed in a residential area of this deeply conservative southwestern Pakistani city,… Read moreNext: Free Baluchistan?
Nobody’s paying much attention, but Pakistan is on the brink of civil war. Taliban-types have taken power in much of the Northwest Tribal Areas along the Afghan border, while tribespeople in Baluchistan–also along the Afghan border, to the southwest–have launched… Read moreIran behind Pakistan guerillas?
