The Delhi Convention resolution

On April 9, 1946, the Pakistan resolution properly so-called was adopted by the Muslim League Legislators Convention held in Delhi. To sum up, the Pakistan of 1947 came into being as a result of the Lahore resolution of 1940 which provided the principles of a constitutional plan for partition, but the resolution, which eventually formed the basis for the creation of Pakistan as a single state and identified the areas comprising its two zones was the one adopted at the Delhi Convention. By Dr Aftab Ahmed

Some Background Information on Baloch

Balochistan is a huge territory located in Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. As a result of the "great game", Balochistan was divided between those countries in the 19th century by the British.In Pakistan, Balochistan is geographically the largest province, however it is the most exploited province, and the least developed

A Brief page of history, on evants from 1972 to 1975

"White Paper blacks out the truth" October 19 1973 The federal government has issued a White Paper on Baluchistan, claiming that the situation in that province is now normal and the army will be withdrawn in the near future. According to unofficial estimates, some 80,000 to 100,000 army personnel have been deployed in the province since trouble first broke out in Lasbela nearly two years ago.

The Kashmir Conflict and National Questiont in Pakistan

Pakistan's "Islamists" have raised the ante in Kashmir, banking on the nuclear deterrent to help keep the conflict confined to the valley. This is a foolish and self-deluding notion, which will get out of hand. India, if pushed to the brink in Kashmir, will have no choice but to call Pakistan's bluff by widening the conflict, especially in Pakistan's "sensitive" regions, where decades of deliberate mis-governance and neglect renders Pakistan "a house of cards" internally. Worse yet, in the absence of a no-first-strike treaty, India may well have to go in for the first strike itself.

Balochistan always an independent entity

Focus on Balochistan
Balochistan never treated as a part of Pakistan and it was never a part of India
By: Asad Rahman

• Part I - Never a part of India

• Part II -Under British rule

• Part III -After independence

• Part IV -Merger with Pakistan

Part I

Never a part of India

The political, economic, social and cultural discrimination that Balochistan's people are facing today is nothing new and has been going on since the very inception of Pakistan. This discrimination today has taken on even more sinister overtones leading to a situation similar to that which pertained in 1970-71 in respect of East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. The fact is that it is not the Baloch that have not accepted suzerainty of Pakistan over them but it is the Pakistani establishment and state that has never accepted the Baloch as rightful, legal, patriotic citizens of Pakistan

The Lawless Frontier

The Lawless Frontier
The tribal lands of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border reveal the future of conflict in the Subcontinent, along with the dark side of globalization  
By Robert D. Kaplan

Balochistan THIS past April in Quetta, the bleached-gray, drought-stricken capital of the Pakistani border province of Baluchistan, I awoke to explosions and gunfire. In search of the violence, my translator, Jamil, and I jumped into a four-wheel-drive Toyota and raced through the section of town inhabited by Pashtoon tribesmen. Suddenly we were surrounded by Pakistani soldiers, who forced us out of the car and pointed assault rifles in our faces. While they searched us, I saw two other soldiers with automatic weapons run along a high wall a few feet from where we stood. Shots rang out from inside the adjacent compound. By 11:00 a.m. five people had been killed and twenty wounded, and a large cache of weapons had been confiscated in a raid on the Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami (Pashtoon National People's Party), a group supporting an independent "Pashtoonistan" created out of Pakistani territory. The party stood accused of murders and kidnapping. Security forces claimed victory, but reports later circulated that party members had filtered back into the area with weapons.

What is Liberty?

My dear brother‘s, Liberty, Peace, Democracy are words which are interpreted differently by different persons. Liberty to one is to not be tied in chains no matter whether his tongue in chained, his thoughts are chained, his ideas are chained, his motherland is chained, his mother tongue is chained, both his present and future are chained but as long as his hands and feet are free he feels himself free and is happy about it. On the other hand, Liberty for another person means a situation where he is free in the real sense of the word. He lives in a democratic country where his linguistic, cultural, historical, religious, and political rights are secured and he is free in the real sense of the word. He is the owner of his present and has the right to choose what course of life he wants to choose for his future.