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Kiyya Baloch
Kiyya Baloch, a freelance journalist, reports on the Baloch separatist insurgency, politics, militancy, and violence in Balochistan. He tweets at @KiyyaBaloch.
Kiyya Baloch is a freelance journalist and researcher from Pakistan’s restive southwestern Balochistan province. He covers ethnic Baloch arm groups and separatist insurgency, security, politics, enforced disappearances, and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), an estimated $62 billion bundle of projects followed by rights abuses in his native Balochistan. He has reported and written for world-leading media outlets, including The Guardian, Al Jazeera online, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Jamestown Foundation, and others. He tweets at @KiyyaBaloch.

October 01, 2022
China Is Unnerved by Increasing Attacks on Chinese in Pakistan
By Kiyya Baloch
Ethnic separatists have recently launched a series of targeted attacks on Chinese citizens living in Pakistan, with the latest murder happening in Karachi on September 28.

September 25, 2022
Pakistan’s Floods Are a Man-Made Disaster
By Kiyya Baloch
It's not just climate change – corruption, bad governance, poor planning, and faulty water management are also to blame for the scale of the current disaster.

September 28, 2015
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Challenges
By Kiyya Baloch
One group is not happy about China’s big investment plans.

March 27, 2015
Chinese Operations in Balochistan Again Targeted by Militants
By Kiyya Baloch
A fleet of oil tankers is attacked, as local tensions flare over major development projects.

January 11, 2015
Border Violence and the Iran-Pakistan Gas Project
By Kiyya Baloch
Signs of forward movement on a critical gas pipeline could be derailed by border attacks.

December 17, 2014
Can China’s Gwadar Port Dream Survive Local Ire?
By Kiyya Baloch
China wants the Gwadar port, but impoverished locals have no interest in foreign meddling.

November 12, 2014
Who Is Responsible for Persecuting Pakistan’s Minorities?
By Kiyya Baloch
Islamists in Balochistan are targeting minorities, yet NGOs are beginning to blame the government too.
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