Quotable Quotes for CSS 2023
For Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO);
- China supports India and Pakistanβs accession to the SCO, and hopes that the entry of new members will contribute to the development of the SCO and regional prosperity and stability. βHua Chunying, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson
For Balochistan Crisis;
- For Pakistan, Balochistan is a test case of its resolve not only to hold Pakistan together, but also to weld the various nationalities into a larger whole. βTilak Devasher, in his book βPakistan: The Balochistan Conundrumβ
- The resilience of Baloch nationalism results from the persistent economic and social inequalities among the provinces that have been exacerbated by military repression and massive violations of human rights. βFrederic Grate in his book βBalochistan: The State Versus the Nationβ
- There was complete and total silence about the Baluch, their cause, their lives and their deaths. No newspaper editor risked punishment on their behalf. Typically, Pakistani journalists sought salve for their conscience by wrongs done to men in South Africa, in Indonesia, in Palestine and in the Philippines β not to their own people. β Jamil Ahmed, a young civil servant from Balochistan
- The allegations of Indian support for separatists in the Balochistan region might indeed have merit. β James Dobbins, a former US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan