Many of us are still in a state of shock over the guilty verdict returned on Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. The response from the people of Pakistan was predictable and overwhelming and I salute their spontaneous actions. From Peshawar to Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore and beyond they marched in their thousands demanding the return of Aafia.
Even some of the US media expressed discomfort over the verdict returned by the jurors … there was a general feeling that something was not right. Everyone had something to say, everyone that is except the usually verbose US Ambassador …

The grim memories of the Ashura carnage in Karachi were yet to be effaced fully from the minds of people when the city saw a couple of another ruthless bomb attacks on the mourners of Karbala martyrs on Friday which left at least 33 people killed and around two-hundred wounded. The first attack was carried out at Shahra-e-Qaideen Bridge wherein a bus carrying mourners from Malir to the Chehlum procession of Hazrat Imam Hussain was targeted while the second one was committed outside the emergency ward of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical …

During the process of jury selection for her trial for attempted murder in New York, Dr Aafia Siddiqui alleged that she could not get a fair trial because she felt “everyone here is” a Jew. She said she would “boycott” the trial unless the Jews on the jury were removed.
Because defendants have the right to have jurors removed from their trial, Dr Aafia was successful in having Jewish Americans taken off the jury.

Dr Aafia’s outburst was widely reported in the Pakistani media but there was little reflection on the allegation …

For the first time in the history of Balochistan the police department employees took to roads in an aggressive way in Quetta on Monday, January 25, and broke into chief minister secretariat and governor house situated on heavily guarded VIP thoroughfare in central part of the city against what it apparently seems to be the issue of low salaries, but in fact the expression of long-piling antagonism of police force against the provincial administration for its self-centred policies. Numbering hundreds and attired both in uniform and plain clothes, the policemen …

After keeping silence for about two years over what the Baloch nationalists describe as loathsome and atrocious behaviour of the paramilitary force with Balochistan people, Balochistan chief minister Nawab Aslam Raisani has ultimately broken the ice lashing out at the Frontier Corps and accusing it of running a parallel government in the province in the presence of an elected one.

Since clinching the top executive slot of the province in April 2008, this is the first-ever public statement of Raisani wherein he has openly expressed his grudge against a subsidiary of …

The patriarch-dominant Balochistan Assembly has ultimately got its last eight-year-long dream materialized with the passage of a bill by the house to dissolve the local bodies and appoint administrators in districts and towns (tehsils) across the province.
The concurrence of all the members to dislodge nazims and their venom against the form of local bodies, which had been receiving a warm-welcome from the poor stratum of society in Balochistan, was well-evident from the fact that the bill did not face any divergence of stance from even a single member of the …