There is something deeply revealing about the fact that terrorists chose a dam as their target. Not a military installation. Not a strategic checkpoint...

When Mir Yar Baloch announced his fictitious “Republic of Balochistan” from abroad and when the Baloch National Movement began its latest lobbying push to pressure the European Union into reconsidering Pakistan’s GSP+ status, they tried to manipulate European audiences into believing that they are grassroots human rights voices. What they did not present was the...

Let me tell you a funny story. Mir Yar Baloch, sitting somewhere abroad in comfort while the people he claims to represent struggle with the consequences of the terrorism his network enables, recently announced the establishment of a "Republic of Balochistan"

When PTM UK announced that its Oxford event had been postponed due to “technical and logistical issues,” it offered its followers a comfortable explanation for an uncomfortable reality. The University of Oxford’s own decision letter told a different story, one that PTM chose not to share with the same audience it had spent weeks informing...

There is no political complexity in what happened in Mashkel. Unarmed laborers from Punjab, men who had travelled to Balochistan to earn an honest living...

There is a particular kind of political hypocrisy that is worth naming directly. It belongs to those who stand in national forums to accuse the state of crimes...