sábado, 1 de junio de 2019

The Ally’s Nudge | The Indian Express

Written by Khaled Ahmed |Published: June 1, 2019 3:37:47 am

Khaled Ahmed was born in 1943 in Jallandhar during the siege of Stalingrad. He has been an opinion writer based in Pakistan for the past 40 years. Over his decades of experience, he has worked for <em>The Pakistan Times, The Nation, The Frontier Post, The Friday Times and The Daily Times, three of which have been closed down either permanently or temporarily. He is now consulting editor at Newsweek Pakistan, based in Lahore.</em> Ahmed graduated from Government College Lahore during the 1965 war with India with an MA (Honours) on the roll of honour, along with a diploma in German from Punjab University. In 1970, he received a diploma in Russian (Interpretation) from Moscow State University. In 2006, he wrote the book, Sectarian War: Sunni-Shia Conflict in Pakistan at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington DC.

The Ally’s Nudge

Push from China could force Pakistan to operate as a normal state

Gwadar, balochistan, china pakistan economic corridor, rawalpindi, gwadar hotel attack, terrorist attack gwadar hotel, fata, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, kulbhushan Jadhav, indian express — China wants its corridor through Pakistan to run normally and that requires Pakistan to live normally as a state. (Photo: REUTERS)

On May 11, three terrorists attacked the only five-star hotel in Gwadar, the new port city of Balochistan being built with assistance from the Chinese Belt-and-Road Initiative. They killed four hotel employees and a navy soldier before being shot by the army. The attack was claimed by the outlawed Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA).