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Display # 5101520253050100All # Web Link Hits 1      The Crisis in Balochistan: US Institute of Peace Balochistan, a vast yet sparsely populated province in southwestern Pakistan, has been a source of conflict and instability for decades. 265 2      Factors leading to insurgency in Balochistan : Alok Bansal Balochistan has been in the midst of a full fledged insurgency for over five years now. Pakistani establishment has tried to project the current insurgency as a tribal mischief being perpetrated by a few feudal lords but the widespread support that the insurgents have been enjoying and the impunity with which they have been targeting symbols of government authority not only across the entire length and breadth of Balochistan but even outside, indicate that there are deep rooted, well defined causes that have led to this insurgency. 1381 3      Carnegie Endowment: In Afghanistan's Shadow: Baluch Nationalism and Soviet Temptations: Soviet Temptations: Selig S. Harrison Harrison focuses on Afghanistan's "shadow"-neighboring Baluchistan. He gives a detailed history of the Baluch nationalist movement in Pakistan (where the overwhelming majority [3.65 million] of the Baluch live), and in Iran (one million). Only about 90,000 are native to the border areas of southern Afghanistan. The author also considers Moscow's "Baluch card" and concludes that the Kremlin's attitude toward Baluch separatism has been ambivalent because the Soviets still believe that there is a reasonable chance to replace the Zia regime in Pakistan and the Islamic fundamentalist government in Iran with more compliant regimes. 745

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