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Terror from Balochistan: a Menacing Tool to Disrupt Sino-Pakistani Economics

Pepe Escobar •ï¿½May 6, 2022

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This is the concise story of how a suicide bombing may carry the potential to subvert the whole, ongoing, complex process of Eurasia integration. Recently, the Balochistan Liberation Movement (BLA) had released an ISIS-influenced video threatening â€œChinese officials and installationsâ€ in Pakistanâ€™s vast province. Yet what actually happened in late April was a suicide bombing... Read More

Failure Foretold: the Sunset of the US Adventure in Afghanistan and the Rise of Nawaz Sharif in Pakistan

Peter Lee •ï¿½July 14, 2013

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The United States, for the most part, regards Pakistan as little more than a sordid stage on which the West is forced to act out one of the central dramas of its epic War on Terror. However, Pakistan, a nation of 180 million people, is a lot more than that. It is a fragile aggregation... Read More

America's Afghan+Pakistan+Baluchistan Follies

Peter Lee •ï¿½May 28, 2011

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I have two pieces up at Asia Times concerning Chinaâ€™s role in the post-bin Laden paradigm for South Asia. Most everybody, especially Pakistan and China, would be happy with a Taliban-led or Taliban-heavy regime in Afghanistan and a little peace and quiet in the region, even if it comes with Islamist fundamentalist thuggery. One point... Read More

Jundallah Versus the Mullahtariat

Pepe Escobar •ï¿½October 21, 2009

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Fasten your seat belts; it's gonna be a bumpy ride. As a crucial subplot of the New Great Game in Eurasia, Balochistan - on both sides of the Iran-Pakistan border - promises turbulence aplenty. Welcome to United States General Stanley McChrystal's self-fulfillment prophecy - "Chaos-istan" in action. There are few doubts the deadly (as many... Read More

The Shadow War in Balochistan

Pepe Escobar •ï¿½June 4, 2009

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Just when Iran and Pakistan had reached a key Pipelineistan breakthrough, regional violence exploded involving, once again, "the greatest prize" Balochistan (Please see Balochistan is the greatest prize, May 9, 2009, Asia Times Online.) The key question to ask is, as usual, cui bono?, or "Who profits?" What's behind this new, bloody intersection of Pipelineistan... Read More

Burn, Balochistan, Burn

Pepe Escobar •ï¿½March 20, 2009

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The "strategic reviewers" of United States President Barack Obama's "good war" in Afghanistan are almost finished. Even before the new policy is set in stone - in Badakshan's famed lapis lazuli, maybe? - by Obama himself within the next few days (with sensitive covert aspects of course withheld from public opinion), its contours are raising... Read More

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