Articles for category: Opinion

Maryam Khanzai

Distorting Balochistan’s history

  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 ...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

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 ...

درێگتێن من ساجد بدیستێن

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 ...

Kiyya Baloch

What Sajid’s death means to me as a Baloch journalist

  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 ...

News Desk

The suffering of the Pakhtuns

  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 ...

Maryam Khanzai

You were wrong, Sajid, the dead haunt us more

  Sajid is not missing anymore but he was wrong when he said the missing haunted more than the dead. He proved those famous words of his wrong with his death, which is haunting me significantly more than his disappearance. I wish he was still missing. It’s painful to write about a friend after he ...

Wasif Khalil

مۓ بندێکۓ گارێن سَر

“لۆگ ابێتک اَت گُڑا من آییارا مئیسج کُرت: “ساجد! آیی مس یو “آییا هما دمانا جئواب دات: “گُڑا بیا نه منی کرّا، کوئیٹها -من همے بێگاها در آتکان په کوئیٹها. من وتی زندگیئے لهتێن وشترێن وهد همۆدا گوازێنت بله هما انت که ساجد چه سویڈنا گار اِنت و منی “مس یو” والا مئیسجان جئوابَ ندنت ...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

‏من ساجدا دو بر گندگَ لۆٹان  زهیر بلۆچ چد و پێسر من ساجد هجبر ندیستگ‌ات. اے ائولی رند اَت که ما ادارُکی دۆچار کپتێن. آ هم ساجد منی سنگتێئے همراهیا درملکا آتکگ‌اَت. چش که منا زُبانزانتی و لبزانکۓ هُب هست‌ات، ما زبان و لبزانکۓ سرا باوَست کرت۔ ساجد مهروانێن مردمے. منا سک باز سَکێن ا ...

Waleed Lal Baloch

The pandemic and (no) change

The Coronavirus pandemic has engulfed the whole globe in just a few months. It has given birth to such an unprecedented crisis that the world is not sure if it will ever be the same again. It has brought with it new social, economic and political challenges. But for Pakistan, the virus has become a ...

Wasif Khalil

The missing link between us and the world

Our home felt empty so I texted him: “Sajid, I miss you.” His reply was quick. “Come to Quetta and stay with me.” I left the very evening and spent some of my best time with him, the time I now cherish more since he’s not replying to my Miss Yous any more after disappearing ...