Articles for author: Sajid Hussain

Sajid Hussain

Baloch leader in EU Parliament: Diplomatic triumph or photo session

  Some people are touting it as one of the biggest diplomatic achievements for the Baloch cause at an international level. Others are calling it another photo session of a Baloch leader with some white politicians. In the photos, Hammal Haider Baloch, the foreign spokesman for the Baloch National Movement, is surrounded by a bunch ...

Sajid Hussain

Veteran Baloch militant leader Bangulzai not dead

Veteran Baloch militant leader Abdul Nabi Bangulzai is alive and “sitting with me right now sipping from his tea”, a source in the United Baloch Army, a militant group Bangulzai purportedly leads, told Balochistan Times on Sunday. Home Minister Balochistan Sarfaraz Bugti claimed the previous day in a press conference that Bangulzai had been killed ...

Sajid Hussain

یجّاگہ مُچ بوگ یا یجّاگہ کار کنگ؟

بلوچ سیاست ءِ تہا یک رندے پدا تپاکی ءِ شور شور انت۔ چِد ءُ پیسر ہم بوتگ۔ سالانی سال سیاسی گلاں برے ہالتاک ءُ برے سوشل میڈیا ءِ تہا چہ بلوچ راج ءَ اتحاد ءِ مستاگی گپتگ۔ بلے پارٹیانی نیام ءَ تپاکی وتی جاگہ ءَ ہر پارٹی وتی تہا پرْشان ءُ ٹُکّر ٹُکّر بیان انت۔ ...

Sajid Hussain

Faith and politics of Balochi script

On Facebook, many Baloch users are changing the way they write their names. Taj Baloch has become Táj Balóc. He was the first to do that in 2012. A linguist and poet, he has been leading a campaign for years to change the script in which Balochi – an Indo-Iranian language spoken by approximately 20 ...

Sajid Hussain

بلوچ ءِ جنگ دنیگہ ہلاس نہ انت

من دل ءِ سوک ءَ لہتیں گپ نبشتہ کتگ ات۔ یکے مں اے گُشتگ ات کہ بلوچاں گوں پاکستان ءَ جنگ ویل کتگ ءُ وت ماں وتا پیڑِتگ انت۔ دومی ایش کہ سلاہ بندیں بلوچ برے عام بلوچے ءِ گاڑی یے پچ گِرنت ءُ برے یکے آوار جننت  ءُ چرائی ءِ سیاداں زر لوٹنت۔ نبشتانک ءِ ...

Sajid Hussain

Are Baloch fighting Pakistan or one another?

Baloch are a curious people. They know they are being beaten to death and they understand that the only way to survival is to hold each other’s hand. But they are reluctant to do that because everyone thinks the other one’s hand is dirty. All Baloch political and militant groups have done some dirty work ...

Sajid Hussain

روس ءَ چہ سوریا ءَ فوجی دزکشی ءِ جار جتگ

روس ءِ صدر ولادی میر پوٹن ءَ دوشمبے روچ ءَ روس ءِ فوجیانی سوریا ءَ چہ دزکشی ءِ ہکم داتگ۔ اے گپ پوٹن ءَ روس ءِ سرکاری میڈیا ءَ گوں تران کنان ءَ گُشتگ۔ روس ءِ فوج ءَ اے پنچمی ماہ انت کہ صدر بشرالاسد ءِ کُمک کنگا سوریا ءِ تہا پُترتگ ءُ بشرالاسد ہکومت ...

Sajid Hussain

Dr Manan: a political leader or a militant?

In a seemingly organized campaign to show the slain Baloch leader Dr Manan’s affiliation with militancy, his photoshoped images are being widely shared on social media by mostly anonymous handles. The Baloch National Movement (BNM), Dr Manan’s political party which claims to be struggling for an independent Balochistan through peaceful means, has also registered a ...

Sajid Hussain

Baloch separatist leader Dr Manan killed in military raid

Baloch separatist leader Dr Manan Baloch was murdered in a military operation early Saturday morning. His four other companions were also killed when military attacked their hideout in Balochistan’s Mastung area. Dr Manan was the General Secretary of the Baloch National Movement, a political group seeking independence from Pakistan. Although the BNM claims its struggle ...

Sajid Hussain

Dad Jan

Military, Baloch militants suffer losses in day-long fight

In a fierce fight between Baloch militants and Pakistan’s military forces on Tuesday in Balochistan’s Dasht area, both sides suffered multiple casualties. A number of civilians were also reportedly killed, including a young girl, Samreen Baloch daughter of Fida Hussain, as a result of shelling by military helicopters. According to BT sources, the Baloch militants ...