The “Unprecedented” Gwadar Protests on December 14, 2021Gwadar has been the site of a weeks-long protest of late. Locals, under the leadership of Jamaat-e-Islami’s Secretary General Balochistan Chapter, Maulana Hidayatur Rehman Baloch, have come out on the streets. The JI leader states and the locals concur that “the people of Gwadar have been deceived in the name of CPEC and Gwadar port […]
Can we use Force Against Force in a Bid to Champion Peace? on December 7, 2021The Pakistani government recently signed two truces with two homegrown radical right-wing outfits: the Tehreek-e-Labbaikya Rasool Allah in Punjab and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Many have brought the Pakistani government under fire for its decision to “concede” negotiations to two organizations displaying militant tendencies, with the Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Fawad […]