The New Baloch Militancy: Drivers and Dynamics

Shakoor Ahmad Wani
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Shakoor Ahmad Wani: Shakoor Ahmad Wani teaches International Relations at Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, Kashmir. He holds a PhD in South Asian Studies from the school of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, 2021, vol. 77, issue 3, 479-500

Abstract: Since the early 2000, Balochistan is yet again embroiled in a cobweb of violence after a hiatus of more than two decades. The Baloch nationalist militancy began to reinvigorate after the seizure of power by General Pervez Musharraf in 1999. Musharraf marginalised the moderate Baloch nationalists and repressed dissident voices. The differences over power and resource sharing escalated quickly into a full-blown armed struggle once Musharraf used indiscriminate force to subdue opposition against his regime. This article examines the proximate and long-term structural factors that led to the resurgence of armed militancy at the turn of the twenty-first century. It analyses the new drivers and dynamics of the present conflict that make it more virulent and lend it a distinctive character.

Keywords: Insurgency; CPEC; deprivation; Gwadar Port; separatism; demography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/09749284211027253

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