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Caressing the Arabian Sea to its south, bulk of Balochistan has an unforgiving terrain which has historically kept the population density to a bare minimum. With rugged mountains, low rainfall and extreme temperatures, the Baloch homeland tests the nerves of the bravest warriors. And if the geography was not tough enough, Balochistan has had the extreme misfortune of being incorporated in the state of Pakistan which treats Baloch people as second class citizens. Balochistan is 40% of Pakistan...

Pakistan's defence minister has been in an overdrive on Twitter in the past few days. After declaring that Pakistan was in a "state of war" following a car bombing in Islamabad, Khwaja Asif has now claimed Pakistan is fully prepared for a "two front war" - the fronts being its eastern frontier with India and western with Afghanistan.

Hairstyles have represented affiliation to a tribal confederation, ethnic group, or a particular polity in parts of East Asia. Rulers demanding submission of peoples have always enforced uniformity in hairstyles and North Korean dictators are only the latest rulers in a long list to enforce such a uniformity.