Balochistan: Pakistan’s Dirty War
For the past 18 months, dozens of tortured, bullet-riddled bodies have mysteriously turned up in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan. They were journalists, lawyers, students, teachers and farm workers somehow caught up in the Baloch insurgency, an ethnic nationalist rebellion the Pakistani Army has for decades gone to great lengths to suppress and that rights groups have long raised concerns about.
Though militancy in Pakistan is frequently front-page news, this deadly separatist conflict in the country’s biggest but least developed province receives rare coverage from mainstream media in Pakistan, let alone internationally — in part because the Pakistani state makes it extraordinarily difficult to report from there…
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