Kiyya Baloch, a freelance journalist, reports on the insurgency, politics, militancy, and sectarian violence in Balochistan.
A humanitarian crisis is brewing along Pakistan's southwestern border with Iran after Islamabad closed the border indefinitely while it builds a fence. Thousands of fuel carriers are trapped in the remote region as the border closure threatens their dangerous livelihood.
A university student in Pakistan aspired to join the country’s elite civil service after undergoing a competitive process that requires participants to prepare for years.
Two months after his unexplained disappearance, a Pakistan journalist who had been critically reporting on the separatist insurgency and Pakistani military counterinsurgency operations in the restive southwestern province of Balochistan has been found dead in Sweden.
The relatives of alleged victims of enforced disappearances are engaged in a new protest campaign to prompt authorities to locate disappeared persons in Balochistan, where thousands have died and disappeared amid a simmering separatist insurgency.
As campaigning for Pakistan’s July 25 election swings into high gear, a familiar game is being repeated in the country’s restive southwestern province of Balochistan.
As the head of Afghanistan’s internationally applauded teenage robotics team, Qaderyan represents a new generation of Afghans determined to overcome the country’s recent history of division, violence, and oppression against women.
Major separatist factions and leading ethno-nationalist politicians active in Pakistan’s restive southwestern province of Balochistan have denied engaging in secret talks with Chinese officials keen on preserving their country’s $60 billion investments.
Turbat was once considered a hub of separatist militancy, but now there are indications that the-decade-long separatist violence is waning.
A planned census in Pakistan this month has revived old controversies in the restive southwestern province of Balochistan.
Naveed Baloch, a 23-old separatist activist, fled torture and persecution in Pakistan. But nearly a year after undertaking the arduous 6,000-kilometer journey to claim asylum in Germany, Baloch was briefly arrested in connection with the December 19 attack in Berlin.
Billions of dollars in Chinese investments billed to transform Pakistan’s destiny have run into fresh controversies, threats, and opposition.
Recent sympathetic comments by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have annoyed supporters of a simmering separatist insurgency in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan because they appear to confirm Islamabad’s views that New Delhi is behind the nationalist rebellion.
Two eyewitnesses recount the immediate aftermath of the May 21 U.S. drone strike that killed Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhar Mohammad Mansur in southwestern Pakistan.
Already one of the most dangerous parts of Pakistan, seen as one of the world’s most hazardous countries for journalists, authorities have added journalists to a terrorism watch list in a beleaguered southwestern province reeling from sectarian and separatist violence.
The residents of a Pakistani coastal town, expected to become the country's future economic hub, are unhappy over government security measures to protect their hometown because they say they face harassment, humiliation and even displacement.
The killing of a senior Baluch separatist leader is seen as a setback for their simmering insurgency in southwestern Pakistan marked by harsh government crackdowns and insurgent attacks.
Residents of a coastal town in southwestern Pakistan are angry over Chinese plans to transform their impoverished hometown into a 21st-century trade and transport hub.