Salman Rafi Sheikh is a researcher with the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London and the author of "The Genesis of Baloch Nationalism Politics and Ethnicity in Pakistan, 1947-1977."
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Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad on April 7: The prime minister is finding little room to maneuver. © Reuters
Salman Rafi Sheikh is a researcher with the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London and the author of "The Genesis of Baloch Nationalism Politics and Ethnicity in Pakistan, 1947-1977."