Srinagar, July 27 -- Balochistan, the largest and most resource-rich province of Pakistan, has been embroiled in a long-standing and bitter struggle for freedom and autonomy a conflict that has been violently suppressed, deliberately ignored, and ruthlessly silenced by the Pakistani establishment. Despite its vast mineral wealth and strategic location, Balochistan remains the most impoverished, underdeveloped and militarized region of the country. But beyond the statistics of deprivation lies a deeper narrative a nation fighting for identity, dignity and independence from what many Baloch consider a colonial-style occupation by the Pakistani state. The Baloch freedom movement, though heavily censored and underreported by mainstream Pakist...