Zulfiqar Shah describes why the Scottish independence referendum provides an opportunity for the UK to looks to its former colonies and consider its obligations towards democracy in countries of the former British Empire.
Residents of Pakistan’s Balochistan Province say flooding in August followed by an earthquake in September have been too much to bear, coming as they did just a few years after a devastating cyclone.
A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck south-west Pakistan this morning, killing at least 30 people according to local reports.
Ten people have been killed in a targeted shooting in Quetta in south-west Pakistan, in a week that has also seen a suicide bomb which killed at least 48 people and the targeting of a bus by militants in the region.
Violence and disappearances are increasing in Balochistan, with over 100,000 people fleeing the area in recent years, as the Balochi nationalists continue to push for independence from Pakistan