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Malik Siraj Akbar, based in Washington, D.C., is the editor-in-chief of The Baloch Hal, the first online English newspaper of Balochistan. He was a 2012 Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and a 2010-11 Hubert. H. Humphrey Fellow at Arizona State University, Akbar is the author of the Redefined Dimensions of Baloch Nationalist Movement. In 2006-2010, Akbar served as the Bureau Chief of Pakistan's respected English language newspaper, Daily Times, in the country's largest province of Balochistan. He is a young member of the National Press Club, Washington DC. where he serves as a member on the Press Freedom Committee. Akbar's struggle for press freedom in his native Balochistan has been profiled by CNN, BBC World and the Washington Post.

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Total articles 52

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  Mengal’s Long March: A Belated but Vital Stand

  By Malik Siraj Akbar

  Mar. 26, 2025

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  Dr. Mahrang Baluch’s Nobel Prize Dilemma

  By Malik Siraj Akbar

  Mar. 14, 2025

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  Mengal’s Long March: A Belated but Vital Stand

  By Malik Siraj Akbar

  Mar. 26, 2025

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