Chapter 1
Introduction;
Amid complexly changing political and surrounding circumstances, media is the instrument that exposes the genuine happenings inside-out and outside-in. Media dictates the understanding circle of a particular community. After the fall of Bangladesh that was known as East Pakistan in the past still the burning issue of Balochistan is not tackle seriously by government as well as media.
The vibrant electronic media, radio, newspapers, websites or books which are known as various means of communication have turned a blind eye over the issue of today’s Balochistan. The term “media “for the press can be used as a collective term.
In the early years of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti’s assassination, the role of the media in Balochistan was discussed in various TV talk shows, radio broadcasts and newspapers but then ignored and the voice of common people became unreachable to the mainstream media. Though most people of the country are award of the situation and ground realities but despite knowing the facts, coverage rate is probably not so good as it had to be.
Balochistan is advantageously located at the eastern boarder of Middle East, connecting Central Asian States with Indian Sub-continent and Indian sea. Presently, the three parts of Balochistan are under the sovereignty of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan; Balochistan is the north-western province of Pakistan, sharing boarder with Sindh in east, on the south by Arabian Sea, on the north-west by Iran and on the north-east by Punjab and the north-west with Afghanistan. Since the inception of Pakistan, Balochistan has been kept deprived and neglected by mainstream media and the frequent military interventions to crush the civil rights movements have deteriorated the ...
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