The Baloch separatist groups that had been involved in a self-destructive infighting for the last four years are inching closer in the aftermath of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement to help highlight human rights abuses in Balochistan. Two major separatist political parties, the Baloch National Movement and the Baloch Republication Party, issued a joint ...
Deputy Chief of Mission at Chinese embassy in Islamabad Zhao Lijian created controversy over asking questions about former Senator Sanaullah Baloch’s “blood”? Mr. Baloch has been a fierce critic of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project that both countries claim would bring an economic revolution in the region. The people of Balochistan, however, think it would ...
Madiea Ghafoor is being touted as the first Baloch woman taking part at the Rio Olympics 2016. Born and raised in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the 23-year-old is the granddaughter of famous Baloch politician and activist from Lyari, Lala Lal Bakhsh Rind. She will be representing Netherlands in the 4×400 relay in the games. Talking to a ...
Currently, I supervise ten trailer trucks in Uganda, the Pearl of Africa. But five years back, I was a journalist with a promising future. I led a team of over 50 reporters, sub-editors and other non-editorial staff at The News International, a newspaper that touts itself to be Pakistan’s largest circulated English daily. I was rigorously ...
On the sunny afternoon of July 26, 2016, a group of armed masked men stopped a passenger bus at a Pakistan army check post, near Gadap Town, in the northwestern part of Karachi, forming the provincial border of Sindh and Balochistan. The masked men ordered all the passengers to show their identity cards. After enquiring ...
I would never be able to believe that he read all the books he bought. He bought them in dozens. Not once in a month. Almost every week. “Where can I find Kafka’s collection of short stories in Urdu?” And he would guide me to a bookshop in Karachi’s Urdu Bazar that the Google Maps ...
“Look at that building over there, Arif. It’s being built from your money.” Fits of laughter broke out between our group on this private joke. The place that my friend pointed was the building under construction on the premises of University of Balochistan, Quetta, and the money he referred to was the amount of the ...
A six-year-old girl has died in a small village of Balochistan called Zarren Bug. On Thursday morning, Sangeen, daughter of Mohammad Umer, died all out of sudden. She didn’t have any medical history. Five kilometers away from her small village, a fierce battle is raging between the Pakistan army and Baloch militant groups in the ...
مئی 2016ءِ دہمی روچ ءَ چہ یو این پی او (اَن ریپریزینٹِڈ نیشنز اینڈ پیپلز آرگنائیزیشن) ءِ نیمگا واشنگٹن امریکہ ءَ دو جتائیں دیوان بوت۔ یک دیوانےءَ ماں ”کارنیگی اِنڈوومنٹ فار اینٹرنیشنل پیس“ ءَ بلوچستان ءَ انسانی ہکّانی جاورہال، میڈیا ءِ آزاد ی ءُ اِندگہ جیڑہانی سرا ہبر بوت۔ اے دیوانءِ بندات ءَ امریکہ ءِ شیڈو سینیٹر پول ...
A Balochi short film has bagged a prestigious award in Bahrain, making it the first-ever Balochi film to win an international award. Jaawar, The Situation, won the first position in the Nasser Bin Hamad Youth Creativity Award in Manama on Monday. Nasser Bin Hamad Youth Creativity Award was launched in Bahrain by Prince Shaikh Nasser ...
