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By: Haroon Baloch A vindictive security lapse around Sunday midnight ensued into huge military loss exposing strengths of Pakistani national security, leaving thousands of questions in the minds of countrymen and answering alike-wise to enemies. Pakistan Navy sacrificed around $75 million P-3C Orions and 10 lives during assault with anti-state elements. Physical damage may be measureable but the actual loss in terms of disclosure is indeterminate. Frequency of such attacks on security forces has rapidly increased and strategy has changed during the past 18 months or so, which also included two major assaults on Pakistani security forces where enemies or so called terrorists succeeded in penetrating deep into their camps and engaged security forces in combats. First attempt was made on General Headquarter of Pakistan Army in Rawalpindi back in October 2009 when terrorists breached security check points while disguising themselves into army uniforms and using fake identities. 11 troo...

By: Haroon Baloch May 16, 2011 Nationalism lacks in our society since everyone is carrying different agendas. Pakistani federation constitutes of several nations, but recognition is still missing at very large. Sindh, Balochistan, Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Kashmir are majorly considered provincial divisions, but there are other chunks populations struggling for being recognized and to enjoy their self-determination rights. Saraiki population is one of major populations in Pakistan, around 60 million of total, dwell largely in northwestern and southern Punjab. Similarly, Hazara people share equal land of Northwestern part of the country and a couple of other populations on the similar pattern. Somewhere 1200 kilometers from Pakistani federal capital in southwestern part of the country, it has become a traditional news of bullet-riddled corpses found of missing Baloch nationalists. They were kept in hiding by state security forces since they were demanding th...

By: Haroon Baloch ISLAMABAD, April 28: Sunny spring at its bloom.   ISLAMABAD, April 30: Sunny spring at its bloom.  ISLAMABAD, April 30: Sunny spring at its bloom.

Talibs Enjoying their Game in Early Hours By: Haroon Baloch After signing in my office on bright and sunny morning of Islamabad in spring 2011, while having my breakfast at "Dhaba" behind the posterior boundary of my office, it was amazing to see these young chaps playing cricket in a vacant plot of CDA (Capital Development Authority). All of a sudden I thought how to convey my foreign media fellows, can such little Talibs be threat to world's peace? Who is responsible for damaging Pakistan's image?   ISLAMABAD, April 29: Talibs enjoying their early hours of morning at 'Dhabba".  ISLAMABAD, April 29: Talibs, gathering in field outside Madrassah after their morning lesson. ISLAMABAD, April 29: Two teams of Talibs playing cricket. ISLAMABAD, April 29: A few of them while waiting their turn to bat. ISLAMABAD, April 29: One of the mates is ready to pull a shot for a boundary. ISLAMABAD, April 29: While taking run after bang...

Haroon Baloch January 07, 2011 The pace of development in South Asia has always remained questionable, mainly attributed to outsized populations. China, the world’s largest population, neighbors the second largest India, as well as the seventh largest population Pakistan. Environmental concerns of the region are reciprocal to their populations. Developed industrial countries are considered responsible for the international environmental crises, while developing countries bear the brunt of negative consequences as they lack resources and capabilities to control this grave problem.  In Pakistan, pity natural resource management over years and high population growth exacerbated environmental menace. Yet having strategically important location in the region, the country faces serious threats in terms of food security and energy crises mainly due to shortage of water, an issue which is drastically ambiguous. Sufficiency in agriculture production highly depends on the...

By  Haroon Baloch February 25, 2011 Turkey, about two decades past, was as striving an economy as Pakistan right now, but due to its commitment to its nation and prolonged democratic political spell, Turkey stands among G-20 member states today. In fact, Turkey has attained the status of 15th largest economy of the world with GDP levels almost tripled to USD 618 billion in 2009, up from USD 231 billion in 2002, while GDP per capita soared to USD 8,590, up from USD 3,500 in the given period. Turkish economy has been flourishing leaps and bounds, as Turk Government in general and AK Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi) a.k.a. conservative Justice and Development Party in particular, have extensively focused on currency reforms, housing projects, social security and healthcare, support for SMEs, foreign policy for Africa & Near East, logistic, tax, educational, and tourism reforms, whereby it has reshaped post 2002 and Turkey has rapidly jumped into top 20 progressive eco...

By:  Haroon Baloch January 21, 2011 Blasphemy Law, Article 295-C of Pakistan Penal Code, is not one of its kind of law applicable only in Pakistan to those who violate the sanctity of religion or prophets, but similar laws are also present in other countries, too, like Germany, where Article 166 of the Strafgesetzbuch states that if a deed is capable of disturbing the public peace, blasphemy is actionable. In 2006, Manfred van H. a.k.a Mahavo was prosecuted for blasphemy in Germany. In India, Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code punishes hate speech, insults or attempts to insult the religion or the religious beliefs of any citizen with deliberate and malicious intention to outrage their religious feelings. In Finland, section 10 of chapter 17 of the Criminal Code relate to blasphemy. Unsuccessful attempts were made to rescind the section in 1914, 1917, 1965, 1970, and 1998. And there are more than dozen countries where blasphemy is felony and is actionable as manma...