With federal budgets, it is important to explore beyond the numbers to see how just how inadequate the government’s plans are, especially when economic justice is not part of the calculus.

Sure, Balochistan has gold, coal and other natural resources. But its most valuable one is its people. If public safety is restored and pro-people development is pursued, Balochistan’s true potential could be tapped.

The ugliness of fundamentalist thought has become so bloody stark that it seems to have completely overtaken simple human decency and civilised actions.