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Balochistan's share of Pakistan's national income has historically ranged between 3.7% to 4.9%. [96] Since 1972, Balochistan's gross income has grown in size by 2.7 times. [97] Outside Quetta, the resource extraction infrastructure of the province is gradually developing but still lags far behind other parts of Pakistan.
In 1970 Pakistani President Yahya Khan abolished the "One Unit" policy, [70] which led to the recognition of Balochistan as the fourth province of West Pakistan (present-day Pakistan), including all the Balochistani princely states, the High Commissioners Province, and Gwadar, an 800 km 2 coastal area purchased from Oman by the Pakistani ...
Balochistan [4] (/ b ə ˈ l oʊ tʃ ɪ s t ɑː n, b ə ˌ l oʊ tʃ ɪ ˈ s t ɑː n,-s t æ n / bə-LOHTCH-ist-a(h)n, - A(H)N; Balochi: بلۏچستان, romanized: Balòcestàn, IPA: [baˈloːt͡ʃest̪ɑːn]), also spelled Baluchistan or Baluchestan, is a historical region in Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the ...
Baloch nationalism (Balochi: بلۏچی راجدۏستی, romanized: Balòci ràjdòsti) is an ideology that asserts that the Baloch people, an Iranic ethnic group native to Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, form a distinct nation. The origins of modern Baloch nationalism coupled with the insurgency in Balochistan involving various militant ...
The Frontier Post: English Peshawar, Quetta and Lahore 1985 22 The Nation [5] Lahore, Karachi, and Islamabad 1986 23 The News International: Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad/Rawalpindi and London 1991 24 Pakistan Observer: Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Muzaffarabad and Quetta 1988 25 The Post: Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi 2005 Defunct 26
The Province of Balochistan in Pakistan has been the theatre of an insurgency, which has escalated in intensity since 2003. 26 August holds special significance as it marks the 18th death anniversary of Nawab Akbar Shahbaz Khan Bugti, the Bugti Tribal chief who was a former Governor and Chief Minister of Balochistan.
The Insurgency in Balochistan is an insurgency [41][16] or revolt [42] by Baloch separatist insurgents and various Islamist militant groups against the governments of Pakistan and Iran in the Balochistan region, which covers the Pakistani province of Balochistan, Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan, and Balochistan of southern Afghanistan.
The Balochs of Punjab (Urdu: پنجاب کے بلوچ; Saraiki, Punjabi: پنجاب دے بلوچ) are a community of Saraiki and Punjabi -speaking Baloch tribes settled in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The majority of Baloch in southern Punjab, including Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur, which adjoin the province of Balochistan, identify as ...