We are living in a strange world. A pandemic ravages through communities across the globe. We witnessed a repeat of police brutality against African-Americans in the killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police which sparked protests throughout the USA and around the world. This sounds gruesome enough, but on May 26 I received news ...
Even by Balochistan’s standards of chaos, Tuesday’s incident with four-year-old Bramsh in Dannuk, Kech, was particularly gut-wrenching. The baby girl was shot and injured, and her mother, Maliknaz, killed at their home reportedly by members of a state-backed local gang of robbers in the middle of the night. One of the thugs caught by ...
A terrible Hamen Gohar does not remember her father. She was no more than 4 years old when the Waba (the epidemic) came and killed most of her family. Her memories of her father and the Waba are the stories passed on to her by her mother and grandmother, the stories of horror, trauma ...
I had written parts of this back in December 2019. Four Baloch women from Awaran had been arrested and a picture circulated on social media in which they were shown in custody, their faces exposed, standing between two Levies women in front of a cache of weapons. Fear and torture, possibly, made them look ...
Pakistan has a tumultuous constitutional history and it once again seems to be in the grip of a constitutional controversy. There are whispers that the generals are making plans to undo the 18th Amendment, passed a decade ago in 2010, that empowered to some extent the units of the Federation. Although it has been ...
The State of Pakistan has tried since the Partition to distort the history of Balochistan. The mostly-planted governments in Balochistan often pass propaganda as historical facts, just as Jam Kamal did recently, while conveniently forgetting that our past is well documented. Balochistan was an independent country and did not want to be merged with ...
من نزانتگ ساجد ھسئین بلۆچیا هم بلَد اِنت اَزیز بلۆچ ائولی رندا من بلۆچیا آزمانکے نبشته کرتگ‌اَت، دگه نامێۓ سَرا، وتی اَسلی ناما نه. همے وھدا سۆشل میڈیایا منی چم په بلۆچستان‌ٹائمزۓ ساییٹا کپتنت. اے تاکۓ اسٹئینڈردڑ و رسانکدری بالادا منا لاچار کرت که گێشتر بچارانی. من که اے تاکۓ بالاد گۆن بلۆچانی اندگه تاکان ...
ساجد و منی سنگتیۓ اُمر اینکس دراج نه‌اَت که سد ھمینکس من چه آییا در بُرتگ۔ چار سالیێن سنگتیا من چه ساجد ھمنچک چیز ھیل کرت که منا وتا باوَر نبوت۔ آ ھم آنلاین۔ اے ھبر منا مدام بژنیگَ کنت که من گۆن ساجدا هجبر ھم دُچار نکپتان۔ ساجدا تئیی ھبر انچۆ په دلگۆش گۆش ...
When I moved to Norway almost three years ago, I began to forget what fear was. With time, I let go of the concerns that one day my friends would wake up and find out from my family that “Kiyya has disappeared”. Most of those who have lived in Europe have similar feelings of ...
Pashtun Tahafuz Movement leader Arif Wazir’s murder proves once again that Pakistan’s security establishment is not ready to let go of its dangerous games in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area anytime soon. In the eyes of Pakistan’s real rulers, their policy of strategic depth is far more precious than the lives of the true owners ...
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