Pakistan Army chief’s Baloch rhetoric echoes Yahya Khan’s Bangladesh playbook

Pakistan Army chief’s Baloch rhetoric echoes Yahya Khan’s Bangladesh playbook

More than five decades after the fall of Dhaka, history appears to be knocking again — this time in Balochistan. In a divisive speech delivered in Islamabad, Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir issued a stark warning to Baloch insurgents and separatist groups, invoking national unity and the two-nation theory. But his remarks have sparked … Read more

People have understood there is no relation between ‘jumlas’ and development: Rahul

People have understood there is no relation between ‘jumlas’ and development: Rahul

The people of Assam have understood there is no relation between ‘jumlas‘ (rhetoric) and development, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday, asking the Centre to explain what it had done for the upliftment of labourers, including tea garden workers, in the state. His remarks come two days before the second phase of the assembly … Read more