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SIX years after Pakistan’s last attempt to try and embrace estranged Baloch leaders failed, or was foiled, Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced a fresh move aimed at Baloch reconciliation but critical questions will need to be answered before such an initiative can get off the ground.
A quick reminder: the current round of insurgency is the fourth since the Khan of Kalat acceded to Pakistan some seven months after the country’s birth, triggering unrest in 1948. The decision did not sit well with some Baloch leaders.
Unlike the troubles of the 1950s and then the 1970s, the current round has lasted a long time since the killing of Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, as the military stormed his hideout in 2006. The tribal elder had taken to the mountains to protest against the rape of a woman doctor in Sui.
Maryam driven to BB s mausoleum by Bilawal to pay her respects
The PML-N leader also visited the grave of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
PHOTO: EXPRESS
KARACHI:
A day after the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) hosted the rally in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz Vice-President Maryam Nawaz visited the Bhutto family graveyard and prayed for the departed souls of
former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and other family members.
PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto accompanied Maryam during the visit to the Bhutto family mausoleum where Aseefa Bhutto received the PML-N delegation.
PHOTO: EXPRESS
According to reports, the delegation laid a floral wreath at the tomb of Benazir, her father and brothers.
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LAHORE: The 11-party opposition Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) alliance held its much-hyped power show at Minar-i-Pakistan on Sunday with its convener Maulana Fazlur Rehman asking the establishment to move aside from the way of the masses or else there could be chaos in the country when the state institutions would be pitched against people.
Addressing a large rally, he said if the country and parliament belonged to people then the right to rule also belonged to people and said that ‘rigged system’ would not sustain.
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Supporters of the Pakistan Democratic Movement, an alliance of political opposition parties, wave flags as they listen to the speeches of their leaders during an anti-government protest rally, in Lahore, Pakistan December 13, 2020. (Reuters)
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