Disrupting Lines, Defining Balochistan

Disrupting Lines, Defining Balochistan

Since 1948, the state of Pakistan has occupied Balochistan in order to extract valuable materials for statecraft. In response to this violent, authoritarian occupation, the indigenous Baloch have organized insurgencies of spatial sabotage and disruption to expose and undermine the colonial state and its global patrons.

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