Waiting on the tarmac at Mehrabad Airport to board the flight that would take me south to Kerman, on the dusty edge of Baluchistan, I studied the plane. |
The situation in Iranian Baluchistan is an extreme case, but it does reflect the problems of minorities in the country. |
Indeed, more than 55,000 Pakistani troops are in Baluchistan waging a war of their own. |
Authorities in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan say most of the province's 26 districts are suffering from severe famine as a result of the drought. |
Rug-making is the only industry that connects Baluchistan with the rest of the world. |
Just as in the province of Kurdistan, there are Kurds, in Azerbaijan Turks, in Turkmenistan, Turkoman and in Baluchistan, Baluchis. |