The issue of missing persons in Balochistan has taken a heavy toll on friends and family of those abducted by Pakistan’s security forces. Thousands of Baloch political activists and human rights advocates have been ‘disappeared’ without any warrant, most languishing in torture cells for years, others ending up dead and mutilated. This trauma is a ...
We were glad when Canadian authorities issued my sister Karima Baloch a visa due to her political activism in Balochistan and the threats to her life by the Pakistan army. We were thankful because, after years of hardships for our family and Balochistan, a Western progressive country recognised her work. We thought she would now ...
The Coronavirus pandemic has changed the world forever with some governments even contemplating providing universal health care and living wages to all citizens. But what has not changed is the systematic violence by the Pakistani state against unarmed Baloch civilians. Abductions, torture and summary executions by the security forces are the order of the day ...
We are living in a strange world. A pandemic ravages through communities across the globe. We witnessed a repeat of police brutality against African-Americans in the killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police which sparked protests throughout the USA and around the world. This sounds gruesome enough, but on May 26 I received news ...
I first met Sajid Hussain in my hometown of Tump, a small insignificant place in the middle of nowhere in Balochistan. I can’t remember the year, but it was sometime in the late 90s or early 2000s. His cousin Asif Baloch, who was a student political activist, proudly introduced him: “Meet Sajid. He is a ...
Now that the New Year is upon us people around the world are coming up with new resolutions: losing weight, quit smoking or go to a world tour. But these resolutions are for normal people. For us, the people of Balochistan, a New Year’s resolution would sound something like this: how to not get abducted, ...
The Headless Woman, or La Mujer Sin Cabeza, released in 2008, is the third feature film by the highly-regarded Argentian director Lucrecia Martel. Her prior films Swamp and Holy Girl also deal with similar subjects. The Headless Woman is almost universally praised for its cinematic form, as the director does not suggest anything through the ...
ڈان کِهوٹئے که چه مُسافرخانها در آتک، سَک گَل اَت، تئو بگوش گَلا بال اَت که واهگ ای پورا بوتگ. نوں ڈان منّتگیں شهسوارے اَت. آییا مسافرخانهئے واجهئے هما پنتانی سرا پکر کت که آییا گوشتگ‌اَت، ڈان! لهتیں چیز الّمی اِنت که هر شهسئوارئے هُرداں ببیت. یکے وَه زَرّ، دومی لهتیں شُشتگیں پَشک، و یک ...
ڈان کِهئوٹئے، نان تهنا هسپانوی و جھانی ادبئے تها کلاسِکے منّگ بیت بلکێن اگان جهانا چه بایبل و کُرانا رند ێک کتابے سک باز وانگ بوتگ، گڑا همێش انت. اے ناول میگویل سروَنتِسا، ھبدھُمی کرنا نبشته کتگ۔ چه دهمی کرنا بگر تان پانزدهمی کرنا، یورپئے تها شهسوار و نایٹانی کسّه سکّ مشهور بوتگ‌انت. اے کسّه ...
دُنیایا کئوم ہست و تکریبَن گیشتریں کئوماں ملک ہم ہست۔ ہر کسا کہ ملک نیست، بزاں ماتا نئیاورتگ۔ ما بلوچ ہم انچیں کئومے ایں کہ مارا ملک و سرڈگار ہست بلہ دگرانی دستا ایں، مارا سیاسی واک و وتواجہی نیست۔ ما انچو گواتا گون ایں، بزاں ما بئے نہ ایں۔ پرچا؟ کہ دُنیا بے ایمان ...
Sameer Mehrab
Sameer Mehrab
