Saadat Hassan

Crisis of Identity in Baluchistan: Baluch and Pashtoon Identity Saadat Hassan

Saadat hassan bilal has written extensively on Sino-Indian Relations: Implications for Pakistan, Sino-Indian Rapprochement, Chinese emerging economy: causes and prospects, Chinese preemptive counter containment strategy, Shanghai cooperation organization and Navel capability as factor for China rising. The presents study aims at describing the kind of identity crisis prevailing in Bluchistan. It also documents some reasons behind this identity crisis. The study reviews the intensity of identity crisis among the two major ethnic groups of Baluchistan i.e. the Balochs and the Pashtoons. The research used ethnographic methods of data collection. The data was analyzed in the light of the postcolonial and resistance theoretical framework. Lack of education, hegemony of the people from other parts of the country disparity and militarization were found to be the major reason of the identity crisis in the province. The study gives a few recommendations in order to deal with the issue.