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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Balochistan"”.
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Politics of education, conflict and conflict resolution in Balochistan, Pakistan
Balochistan is one of the federating units (provinces) of Pakistan; it constitutes 44 % of Pakistan’s total territory and has been in a state of confrontation with the state since 1948. This is because the majority of the Baloch consider that the Pakistani state annexed their land forcibly, against …
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Destruction as Rule: Containment, Censuring and Confusion in Pakistani Balochistan
… until today, in Pakistan’s southern province of Balochistan. Through this study, the dissertation argues: Where the construction of state, territory, and subjects requires a rendering of society as legible in order to create it and make it manipulable for the purposes of rule, the destruction of …
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Politics of nationalism, federalism, and separatism: The case of Balochistan in Pakistan
… has been the conflict in its largest province of Balochistan. The conflict has multiple dimensions including a strong movement for separation of Baloch lands from Pakistan. This thesis investigates various phases of the Baloch conflict with Pakistani federation and analyses different strands of …
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CHINA–PAKISTAN ECONOMIC CORRIDOR'S IMPACT ON EXTREMIST SAFE HAVENS IN BALOCHISTAN: BOOM OR BUST?
… energy projects. At the center of this vision is Balochistan, a resource rich but historically marginalized province, where CPEC’s plans aim to modernize the region and eliminate safe havens for extremism. This thesis explores CPEC’s implementation over the past 10 years, its impact on safe havens …
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Paleoenvironmental and tectonic reconstruction of the lower Eocene Ghazij Formation and related units, Balochistan, Pakistan: Implication for India -Asia collision
<p>Formation and related units exposed along the transpressional suture zone of the western margin of the Indian plate preserve the oldest syntectonic deposits of initial India-Asia collision. Analysis of lithofacies, paleoflow directions, and sandstone petrography indicate that the process of …
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An exploration of the cultural context and consequences of perceptions of illness and health-seeking behaviour of the Baloch
… ethnographic study. Four districts of Pakistani Balochistan were selected for fieldwork. Traditional or folk healers of different categories, medical professionals, sufferers, family heads, community elders, tribal chiefs and medical doctors were interviewed in depth during fieldwork and many …
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Water access issues for expanding urban areas: a case study of Quetta, Pakistan
… becoming a scarce commodity everywhere including Balochistan (Pakistan), where environmental challenges are at a peak. Most of the poor (Quetta, Pakistan) pay high prices for water from private vendors or, with their labour, collect free water from distant sources. Tragically, all the money paid …
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Drought assessment of Pakistan and its impact on its agricultural production
… between the drought and Rabi crop production for Balochistan and KPK provinces, which have limited natural resources; whereas no such correlation exists for the provinces of Punjab and Sindh, since there is already an abundant presence of various natural resources in the form of extensive …
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Kinematics and Dynamics of Continental Deformation
… By considering the kinematics of the 2013 Balochistan and Minab earthquakes, local gravitational and far-field compressive forces in the Makran accretionary prism are inferred to be balanced. This force balance allows the mean shear stress and effective coefficient of friction on the Makran …