Balochi separatist music
Pakistan is fighting against a Taliban-led militant insurgency in the north of the country. But there is another, altogether different guerilla war being waged in western Pakistan. Baloch separatists say their ethnic community has been excluded and oppressed by Islamabad for over sixty years. The World’s Fahad Desmukh reports the battle is not just being fought by fighters, but by musicians as well.
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