Is There a Way Forward for Balochistan?

WORT 89.9FM Madison · Jul 31, 2026 · 45m

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, the situation in the Balochistan province of Pakistan is complicated. But as time goes on without meaningful effort to create sustainable ways to peace and cooperation, Balochistan and Pakistan risk losing everything. Balochistan’s 134,000 square miles of rugged mountains, deserts, valleys, lakes and rivers rest on buried gas, untapped oil, indigenous iron, copper, gold, silver, molybdenum, lead, zinc, barite, chromite, coal, gypsum, limestone (marble), among a host of other natural resources. But much of the population lives at a poverty level of…