Rafiullah Kakar is a student of Master of Public Policy (MPP) at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Hailing from Balochistan, he is the Rhodes Scholar from Pakistan for the year 2013.
While the ostensibly inexorable slump of Pakistan cricket continues, it has increasingly come to resemble and reflect the broader social and political behavioural patterns.
Will this prove to be the turning point in the war against extremism and terrorism? At least, I am not optimistic.
They bombed the Meena Bazar in Peshawar, killing 101 and injuring over 200 people, many of the...
Just as the internal political crisis has begun to subside, another crisis in the form of tension along borders has arisen. On the eastern border, violence has escalated along the Line of Control and the workin...
Criticizing the on-going peace talks with Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), leader of the opposition in the Upper House Senator Aitzaz Ahsan rightly pointed out last Tuesday that the real stakeholders are not a part of the process.
Located at the heart of the world’s oil route and with 750 km of highly strategic Arabian Sea coastline, Balochistan is the largest province of Pakistan, with the smallest number of people. Accounting for 44% o...