Zaffar Baloch
Dr. Zaffar Baloch is a Toronto-based political activist who has been associated with the progressive and democratic movement against Pakistan’s military establishment. His focus of activism in Canada is raising human rights abuses in Balochistan such as enforced disappearances of Baloch activists by Pakistani security forces, advocacy for victims of torture and the rights of religious minorities. He is affiliated with the Baloch National Movement and the struggle for an independent Balochistan. He tweets at @ZaffarBaloch
The struggle for Balochistan’s independence: what went wrong?
What followed the 1948 invasion of the sovereign state of Balochistan by the Pakistani military was an armed revolt led by Prince Agha Abdul...
Illusion
Meaning to life is an illusion followed by the multitude, a madding crowd. Blessed are those who are blinded with ignorance for they keep...
The wailing wall
I am the wailing wall
In my cracks and clefts
Lay the sorrows of ages
In my stones
Lives man and his loneliness
I am the wailing wall
Come to...
Lahoot La’makaan
All places holy
Remind me
How lonely I am
How lonely I’ve been
All these years,
For millenniums.
Out of me,
Grew temples and tombs,
The weeds of my soul.
Now taller than...
