Factors leading to insurgency in Balochistan

Author: Bansal, Alok

Source: Small Wars & Insurgencies, Volume 19, Number 2, June 2008 , pp. 182-200(19)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

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. The paper attempts to analyse the factors that have led to current round of insurgency in Balochistan.

Keywords: Pakistan; Balochistan; Baloch; internal disorders; Gwadar; Bugti; insurgency; BLA

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09592310802061356

Affiliations: 1: Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, India

Publication date: 2008-06-01