May 27: Shaheed Saeed Qamberzai

Is Chabahar India’s great game changer?

India has been a bit of a tortoise in the Asian geopolitical game.

COLUMNIST | INDRANIL BANERJIE

Balochistan is one of the world’s driest, hottest and most desolate regions, remembered by Alexander the Great’s historians as the cruellest land they ever encountered and which almost destroyed them as they trekked back home from India. Half the Greek army perished during the march across Balochistan’s searing deserts and left Alexander so exhausted that he never made it back to Macedonia. For more than 2,000 years after Alexander, Balochistan was left largely to itself and the Persians who considered it part of their empire were generally feeble in applying their writ over the region.

May 26: Shaheed Asim Faqeer Baloch and Abdul Rauf Baloch