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Malik Siraj Akbar
Malik Siraj Akbar ( ur, ) is an ethnic Baloch journalist based in the United States. He is the editor-in-chief of the ''Baluch Hal'', the first online English language newspaper of Pakistan's Balochistan Province, ''Enkaar'', a liberal Urdu language news magazine, and a contributing writer for The Huffington Post. He lives in exile in the United States. In 2010–11, Akbar was a Hubert Humphrey Fellow at Arizona State University while in 2012, the National Endowment for Democracy (N.E.D), a Washington DC-based organization, awarded him a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship where he researched the political assassinations, enforced disappearances and attacks on journalists in Balochistan. He was a 2014–15 Edward Mason Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he was elected as the Vice President of Communications at the Kennedy School Student Government. He served as the web editor of Kennedy School's student newspaper, ''the Citizen''. Early life Akbar was bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panjgur
Panjgur or Panggur ( Balochi and ur, ), with the older name Bannajbur and Fannazbur is a small town in Panjgur District, Balochistan. It is known for growing dates. History Al-Muqaddasī (985 AD) documented that Bannajbur was the capital of Makran and that it was populated by people called ''Balūṣh'' (Baluch). This is the first known reference to the Baloch people. Climate Panjgur has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification ''BWh'') with hot summers and cold windy dry winters. Precipitation mainly falls in two distinct periods: in the mid-winter and early spring from late December to March, and in the monsoon in June and July. Subdivisions The three main subdivisions of Panjgur are Gramkān, Qila Khudābadān and Tasp. Tasp is mostly populated by the Mullazai tribe See also * Panjgur District * Panjgur Airport * Date palm farming in Pakistan Pakistan is the 5th-largest producer of dates in the world. Production Pakistan is one of biggest producers a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |