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Specially trained military force being formed for Gwadar

The Pakistan government has formed a special security division comprising 1,200 strong security personnel specially trained to protect Chinese engineers and workers, and to secure multi-billion Chinese investments in Balochistan’s port city of Gwadar. A meeting on Friday finalized the formation of a new force consisting of 1,200 personnel for the so-called “Gwadar Safe City ...

Sajid Hussain

Baloch writers get death threats for ‘blasphemy’

A man claiming to be representing Tehrik e Taliban Afghanistan has threatened to kill two Balochi writers if they were confirmed to be running an anonymous Facebook account which is “posting blasphemous images and content.” The concerned Balochi writers are Dr Naguman and Dr Hanif Sharif, both well-known in Balochistan for their fiction works. They ...