Articles for category: Featured

Lateef Johar

Eight-year-old Bohair. He was eight months old when his father was taken away by the military.

The tragic story of a Baloch family from the ‘town of mass graves’

On Feb 18, 2019, online Baloch activists shared a picture of a smiling eight-year-old child with a caption that read that Bohair was an eight-month-old infant when his father, Atiq Ur Rahman, was abducted by Pakistan military and he is still missing. Atiq was taken away during a late-night raid on his house in Khuzda’r ...

Lateef Johar

Another student goes missing, leaving family wondering why?

Family members and friends lost connection with Sarfaraz Ahmed, 20, a student at the Department of Psychology of Peshawar University, at the midnight of Feb 13, this year. Sarfaraz was expected in Dera Ghazi Khan (D.G. Khan), a Baloch-dominated city in Punjab, by 11:00 am the following day to spend time with his student friends. ...

Mureed Baloch

I walked from Balochistan to Germany

This is Fareed Baloch’s year long journey on foot from Balochistan to Germany.   It was around three in the morning when the agents hurriedly woke us up. “Move, move, move it! Let’s go. Now is the time,” one said, as they shepherd us. We were exhausted after already failing an attempt to cross the ...

Haji Naseer

Tales from the dungeon: Haji Naseer

In the Tales from the Dungeon series of Balochistan Times, former victims of enforced disappearance recount their ordeal. Haji Naseer was one of the first political activists to be whisked away by Pakistan military from Balochistan in 2004. He now lives in Germany as a refugee.   My name is Haji Naseer, and I am ...

Dr Naseem Baloch

Photo by Haneef Shareef

Tales from the Dungeon: Dr Naseem Baloch (Part II)

In the Tales from the Dungeon series of Balochistan Times, former victims of enforced disappearance recount their ordeal. Dr Naseem Baloch was forcibly disappeared twice. He was first whisked away by security forces in 2005 along with Dr Imdad Baloch, Dr Allah Nizar, Dr Yousuf Murad, Ghulam Rasool, Akhtar Nadeem and Ali Nawaz Gohar, all ...

Dr Naseem Baloch

Photo by Haneef Shareef

Tales from the Dungeon: Dr Naseem Baloch (Part I)

In the Tales from the Dungeon series of Balochistan Times, former victims of enforced disappearance recount their ordeal. Dr Naseem Baloch was forcibly disappeared twice. He was first whisked away by security forces in 2005 along with Dr Imdad Baloch, Dr Allah Nizar, Dr Yousuf Murad, Ghulam Rasool, Akhtar Nadeem and Ali Nawaz Gohar, all ...

Yousuf Murad Baloch

Tales from the dungeon: Dr Yousuf Murad Baloch (Part II)

This is the the second and final part of Dr Yousuf Murad’s tale. The first part can be read here. The tales from the dungeon is a project initiated by Balochistan Times in which former victims of enforced disappearances recount their ordeals.   My bruises were getting better and I no longer passed red urine. ...

Yousuf Murad Baloch

Tales from the dungeon: Dr Yousuf Murad Baloch (Part I)

This is first part of Balochistan Time’s Tales from the dungeon series in which former victims of enforced disappearances tell their ordeal. Dr Yousuf Murad Baloch was among the first victims. He was taken away from Karachi in March 2005 along with other members of the Baloch Students Organization (BSO). He now lives in Germany.   ...

Sajid Hussain

Noor Ahmad: The Master, The Uncle is no more

He was devastated after coming across the Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of a starving Sudanese child and a vulture waiting in the background to feed on her body in case she died. “With all the riches of the world, with all the power the mankind has achieved, how come we fail to feed this child?” ...