Newsline and TeaBreak.pk co-hosted an online chat covering the 2011 Sindh floods on October 19. Get an instant replay of the entire discussion here, featuring doctors, journalists and activists who have been working on the ground in affected areas.
Twenty-six innocent pilgrims of Hazara origin were murdered in cold blood when their Iran-bound bus was waylaid by unknown assailants near Mastung, Balochistan.
A Human Rights Watch report highlights horrible stories of torture and emotional pain via a detailed study of the enforced disappearances that have plagued Balochistan for several years and offers a full list of recommendations to the country’s leaders.
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.
Working in sub-human conditions, the lives of the blighted miners of Balochistan are in daily peril — as the tragic death of 43 miners in a coal mine so graphically illustrates.