Since I arrived in Canada as a political asylum seeker and after being able to speak and write in English, I have been spending most of my time and energy creating awareness about the Pakistani government’s human rights violations and the humanitarian situation in Balochistan. I have reached out to dozens of human rights organizations ...
Drafted by: Asif Magsi It was around 8:00 am on March 17, 2017, and I was sleeping in my room in Parom, district Panjgoor. All of a sudden, I heard someone screaming my name to wake me up. As soon as I opened my eyes my elder sister was squealing at me to wake up ...
In 2013, Saeeda Hameed became the first girl in her family to leave her hometown of Zehri in Khuzdar district of Balochistan to pursue an education in the cosmopolitan city of Karachi. Other girls of her age in the family had already got married and mostly looked after their children. Saeeda now goes to university ...
On 25 November 2014, Bibi Sajida and Haji Shaukat Ali, parents of Naseebullah, watered the flowers in their yard and made a teapot of black tea, as they usually did for their children when they returned from school and tuition. A little while later they received a phone call from a relative, informing them that ...
Karima Baloch is a former chairperson of the Baloch Students Organization and one of BBC’s top 100 women in 2016. She lives as a political refugee in Canada. We grew together, played together and shared the same toys that we had invented ourselves. We, the two girls, wandered around the Nihing river, the surrounding mountains ...
A Baloch who previously worked as a sergeant in the United Arab Emirates police has been whisked away by security forces just after he arrived in Karachi. Haji Abdul Samad, apparently in his sixties, posted a video on the Facebook Page News Gidroshia, saying his brother, Haji Sher Jan, was detained at the Jinnah International ...
I am obsessed with reading novels, short stories, or any literature about people who left their homes, were expelled from their countries or persecuted. A part of keeping informed is I don’t get weary of watching movies and documentaries about the lives of refugees or victims of torture and imprisoned for unjust reasons. Of course, ...
As enforced disappearances and kill-and-dump operations continue in Balochistan, an increasing number of evidence is surfacing to prove Pakistan army’s involvement in extorting money from the families of victims. On August 20, 2019, a friend sent me a link to a news story on WhatsApp with the headline: “[Pakistan] Army major gets life term for ...
The Turbat-born Baloch writer and film director is not the world’s top social media influencer, but he is arguably Balochistan´s most well-known face with a wide-ranging social media outreach. A Baloch would already know we are referring to Dr Haneef Shareef, for there is no one else from Balochistan with such an intellectual background so ...
We live in wavering times. The changes which took prolonged epochs and eras to occur can now take place in sequences of transitory spans. The German sociologist, Ulrik Beck, called this swiftly changing or post-modern world a risk society. Though he came to this conclusion primarily on the bases of his sociological understanding of the world, I ...
