The Baloch National Struggle In Pakistan Emergence And Dimensions

Author : Jan Muhammad Dashti
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781698703961

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The Baloch National Struggle in Pakistan: Emergence and Dimensions by Jan Muhammad Dashti Pdf

The Baloch National Struggle in Pakistan discusses the relevance of the principle of the right of self-determination in the context of rising trends towards ethnic nationalism in Afro-Asian countries. The book deals with the emerging conflict of the Baloch with Pakistan and Iran. It also discusses the geopolitical and geostrategic repercussions of any re-demarcations of the boundaries of Pakistan and Iran on the region and long-term policies of world powers. The book gives an insight into the political psychology and cultural traits of the Baloch struggle for safeguarding their historic personality, political sovereignty, and their national and cultural survival in Iran and Pakistan.

Author : Jānmahmad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Balochistān (Pakistan)
ISBN : UCAL:B3677727

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Essays on Baloch National Struggle in Pakistan by Jānmahmad Pdf

Author : Malik Siraj Akbar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1456895311

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The Redefined Dimensions of Baloch Nationalist Movement by Malik Siraj Akbar Pdf

Balochistan is Pakistan's largest province rich with natural gas, gold and copper. Located on the borders of Iran and Afghanistan, land of the Balochs, where the first Baloch confederacy was founded in 1666, has had a bitter history of exploitation and suppression by a strictly centralized federal government heavily influenced by the country's military. While the central government and the province confronted each other four times since the forceful annexation of the Baloch land into Pakistan in 1948, the ongoing movement entails more systematic and radical dimensions. Malik Siraj Akbar, editor of the The Baloch Hal, the first online English newspaper of Balochistan, takes a look at the last one decade how the dimensions of the Baloch movement changed. A Hubert Humphrey Fellow at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, Malik reveals the "enforced disappearance" of hundreds of Baloch political workers and their brutal murder by the Pakistani security services under a "kill and dump" policy during detention in a phenomenon similar to Argentina's Dirty War. The book analyzes growing state-sponsored radicalization in secular Balochistan. Malik is the most widely quoted journalist on Balochistan. He insists that the killing of former governor Nawab Akbar Bugti, 79, by Pervez Musharraf's regime proved as the 9/11 of Pakistan's relations with the resourceful province. The Balochistan question merits attention of the international community not only for a stable Pakistan but also to provide the world alternative options for a secular buffer state between Iran and Afghanistan if Pakistan falls in the hands of Islamists.

Author : Naseer Dashti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1948288087

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The Baloch Conflict with Iran and Pakistan by Naseer Dashti Pdf

Balochistan, the land of the Baloch is a huge land mass stretching from Southeastern Iran to the east bank of River Sindh in Punjab, and from lower reaches of Helmand in Afghanistan to the Indian Ocean. In 1839, the British occupied Balochistan and later it was divided into various parts and half of it was given to Persia. In the wake of the British withdrawal from India in 1947, Eastern Balochistan was annexed by Pakistan in 1948. Since then the Baloch have been confronting the religious states of Pakistan and Iran in order to regain their lost sovereignty. The book is the account of this violent and protracted conflict. This book answers some of the pertinent questions regarding historical contexts of Persian and Pakistani state nationalism, evolution of Baloch national struggle, the tale of atrocities and the international perspective regarding the conflict.

Author : Malik Siraj Akbar
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781456895334

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The Redefined Dimensions of Baloch Nationalist Movement by Malik Siraj Akbar Pdf

Balochistan is Pakistan’s largest province rich with natural gas, gold and copper. Located on the borders of Iran and Afghanistan, land of the Balochs, where the first Baloch confederacy was founded in 1666, has had a bitter history of exploitation and suppression by a strictly centralized federal government heavily influenced by the country’s military. While the central government and the province confronted each other four times since the forceful annexation of the Baloch land into Pakistan in 1948, the ongoing movement entails more systematic and radical dimensions. Malik Siraj Akbar, editor of the The Baloch Hal, the first online English newspaper of Balochistan, takes a look at the last one decade how the dimensions of the Baloch movement changed. A Hubert Humphrey Fellow at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, Malik reveals the “enforced disappearance” of hundreds of Baloch political workers and their brutal murder by the Pakistani security services under a “kill and dump” policy during detention in a phenomenon similar to Argentina’s Dirty War. The book analyzes growing state-sponsored radicalization in secular Balochistan. Malik is the most widely quoted journalist on Balochistan. He insists that the killing of former governor Nawab Akbar Bugti, 79, by Pervez Musharraf’s regime proved as the 9/11 of Pakistan’s relations with the resourceful province. The Balochistan question merits attention of the international community not only for a stable Pakistan but also to provide the world alternative options for a secular buffer state between Iran and Afghanistan if Pakistan falls in the hands of Islamists.

Author : Naseer Dashti
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781490780924

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The Baloch Conflict with Iran and Pakistan by Naseer Dashti Pdf

The book is about history of the Baloch conflict with Iran and Pakistan. The work describes and analyzes, from the very beginning, the protracted and bloody struggle of the Baloch against Iran and Pakistan. It is an attempt to answer some of the pertinent questions regarding the background and contextual factors of this long-drawn conflict. The book analyzes the strength and weaknesses of opposing parties in the conflict, and it discusses the role of regional and international interest groups. It is also an overview of the problems facing the Baloch national struggle in both countries and prospects for the success of the Baloch resistance in near future.

Author : Alexander Maxwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317979166

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The Comparative Approach to National Movements by Alexander Maxwell Pdf

Miroslav Hroch’s Social Preconditions of National Revival has profoundly influenced the study of nationalism since it first appeared in English translation, particularly because of its famous three-phase model for describing and analyzing national movements in Eastern Europe. Contributors to this book explore Hroch’s continued relevance to the field of nationalism studies with four case studies and two theoretical/historiographic essays. Two case studies apply Hroch’s thinking to Eastern Europe in light of subsequent historiography, finding that Hroch’s ideas remain useful for understanding national movements in Belarus and among the Kuban Cossacks. Two further studies apply Hroch’s schema to the Mexican independence movement and contemporary Pakistan – times and places that Hroch specifically excluded from his own considerations. The first theoretical contribution seeks to apply Begriffsgeschichte to Hroch’s work; the second suggests that Hroch’s phases form a useful typology of nationalism, thus facilitating communication between different branches of nationalism studies. Hroch ends the volume with his own commentary on the various contributions. This book was published as a special issue of Nationalities Papers.

Author : Gilles Dorronsoro,Olivier Grojean
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190934903

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Identity, Conflict And Politics In Turkey, Iran And Pakistan by Gilles Dorronsoro,Olivier Grojean Pdf

Ethnic and religious identity-markers compete with class and gender as principles shaping the organization and classification of everyday life. But how are an individual's identity-based conflicts transformed and redefined? Identity is a specific form of social capital, hence contexts where multiple identities obtain necessarily come with a hierarchy, with differences, and hence with a certain degree of hostility. The contributors to this book examine the rapid transformation of identity hierarchies affecting Iran, Pakistan and Turkey, a symptom of political fractures, social-economic transformation, and new regimes of subjectification. They focus on the state's role in organizing access to resources, with its institutions often being the main target of demands, rather than competing social groups. Such con- texts enable entrepreneurs of collective action to exploit identity differences, which in turn help them to expand the scale of their mobilization and to align local and national conflicts. The authors also examine how identity-based violence may be autonomous in certain contexts, and serve to prime collective action and transform the relations between communities.

Author : Farhan Hanif Siddiqi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136336973

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The Politics of Ethnicity in Pakistan by Farhan Hanif Siddiqi Pdf

In order to understand the Pakistani state and government’s treatment of non-dominant ethnic groups after the failure of the military operation in East Pakistan and the independence of Bangladesh, this book looks at the ethnic movements that were subject to a military operation after 1971: the Baloch in the 1970s, the Sindhis in the 1980s and Mohajirs in the 1990s. The book critically evaluates the literature on ethnicity and nationalism by taking nationalist ideology and the political divisions which it generates within ethnic groups as essential in estimating ethnic movements. It goes on to challenge the modernist argument that nationalism is only relevant to modern-industrialised socio-economic settings. The available evidence from Pakistan makes clear that ethnic movements emanate from three distinct socio-economic realms: tribal (Baloch), rural (Sindh) and urban (Mohajir), and the book looks at the implications that this has, as well as how further arguments could be advanced about the relevance of ethnic movements and politics in the Third World. It provides academics and researchers with background knowledge of how the Baloch, Sindhi and Mohajir ethnic conflict in Pakistan took shape in a historical context as well as probable future scenarios of the relationship between the Pakistani state and government, and ethnic groups and movements.

Author : Hassan Hamdam
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781698704364

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The Right to Self-Determination Under International Law and Politics: the Case of the Baloch People by Hassan Hamdam Pdf

The emergence of the right to self-determination phenomenon during the twentieth century changed the political map of the world with the liberation of many nations from the yoke of colonialism. This book is an attempt to navigate the right of self-determination through international legal norms and explore its triumph and failure since the Second World War. It elaborates on the role, position, and the obligations of a modern state in the international law and new emerging relations of people in the world. The bookdescribes briefly the history of British rule in the Indian subcontinent and the creation of the new Muslim state of Pakistan in 1947. The book narrates the events leading to the occupation of Balochistan by Pakistan in 1948. It highlights the long struggle of the Baloch people for the right to self-determination and to explain the right of the Baloch people according to the international principles and provide political and legal methods for the right to self-determination.

Author : Bilal Zahoor,Raza Rumi
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785274930

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Rethinking Pakistan by Bilal Zahoor,Raza Rumi Pdf

Rethinking Pakistan is a wide-ranging analytical dissection of the Pakistani polity and offers a well-meaning, progressive prescription for present-day Pakistan, stitched together by an eclectic list of experts spanning diverse backgrounds and subjects. From energy self-sufficiency and scientific development to freedom of the press and the essential question of the dominance of the military over civilian affairs, this compendium offers a suitable guide for anyone who seeks to understand the striking mix of contemporary and historic challenges faced by Pakistan in the twenty-first century. The book deals with Pakistan's contemporary realities and future prospects.

Author : M. Webb,A. Wijeweera
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137397447

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The Political Economy of Conflict in South Asia by M. Webb,A. Wijeweera Pdf

Destructive conflicts have thwarted growth and development in South Asia for more than half a century. This collection of multi-disciplinary essays examines the economic causes and consequences of military conflict in South Asia from a variety of perspectives embracing fiscal, social, strategic, environmental and several other dimensions.

Author : Salman Rafi Sheikh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351020688

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The Genesis of Baloch Nationalism by Salman Rafi Sheikh Pdf

This book explores the ideological, political and military interventions of the state of Pakistan in Balochistan and traces the genesis of today’s secessionist movement. It delves into the historical question of Balochistan’s integration into Pakistan in 1947 and brings out the true political and militant character of the movement during the first three decades (1947–77) of Pakistan’s existence as a nation-state. It shows how the Baloch, as well as other minority groups, were denied the right to identify themselves as a sub-national/ethnic group in the new nation-state, compounded by a systematic exclusion from decision-making circles and structures of political and economic power. The volume also traces political resistance from within Balochistan and its subsequent suppression by military operations, leading to a widespread militant insurgency in the present day. Drawing on hitherto unexplored sources, this book will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of South Asian history, politics, international relations and area studies.

Author : Jan Muhammad Dashti
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781698702896

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The Baloch Cultural Heritage by Jan Muhammad Dashti Pdf

Culture is an integrated system of institutions, ideas, beliefs, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society. It is an important factor in shaping and re-shaping the identity of a people. The culture has helped the Baloch to survive and to retain its national identity in difficult times in their national history. This book is a modest effort to discuss the conditions which have ensured the continuity of the Baloch culture, and the inspiring characteristics which still direct the Baloch society. It is an exploration towards understanding the Baloch and its socio-cultural traditions in their proper historical perspective.

Author : Sabir Badal Khan
Publisher : Università di Napoli, "l'Orientale"
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Two Essays on Baloch History and Folklore by Sabir Badal Khan Pdf

During the early 19th century the British came in direct contact with the Baloch, first with those living in the Punjab and Sind, and later with those in Balochistan proper. Soon after their arrival in the region, they began studying the Baloch as an ethno-national group, their language, literature, folklore, tribal structure, physical features, and so on, forming theories and suggesting hypotheses regarding their origins and relations with other nations and peoples. While some maintained that the Baloch originated from north-western Iran, others believed they came from Central Asia, from Arabia, or from else- where.1 Among the early British writers, some also opined that while some tribes might have a foreign origin, bulk of the Baloch were the autochthonous population of the country. With the passage of time, however, other theories were abandoned and a northwest Iranian origin came to be the widely accepted one. This thesis was established on three basic grounds: first, from the Balochi oral tradition which claims that the Baloch came from a place called Alab/Alap, identified as Aleppo in Syria by Western writers and later followed by some lo- cal writers too; secondly, their mention in the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi where they are sometimes shown along with the people of Gilan and Dilam, regions situated on the Caspian Sea regions; and thirdly, on the basis of their language, which is classified as belonging to the northwestern group of Iranian languages having close affinities with Kurdish and other languages of that branch.