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Karima Baloch appears on BBC’s 100 women list

Baloch nationalist leader and the first woman Chairperson of the Baloch Students’ Organization, Karima Baloch, makes it to the prestigious list of BBC’s 100 women for 2016. These women from across the globe have been chosen for their “inspirational and influential” work. “The BBC has chosen its list of inspirational and influential women for 2016. ...

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Baloch separatists inching closer after years of infighting

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 ...

Shah Meer Baloch

Twitter hot as Chinese envoy questions Sana’s ‘blood’

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 ...

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Three Baloch women at Rio Olympics

  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 ...

Sajid Hussain

Numbers, tragedies, headlines

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 ...

Imtiaz Baloch

Who was Comrade Wahid

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 ...

Sajid Hussain

The bookman goes missing

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 ...

Sangat Baloch

The money-minting university

“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 ...

Sajid Hussain

‘Mother’s womb’ of Baloch militants under siege

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 ...

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دَری جہانءَ بلوچ جیڑہ ءَ پدا سر کَشّتہ

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 ...