Articles for category: Opinion

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 ...

Lateef Johar

Farewell, Kamash Ilahi Bakhsh

In Balochistan, almost every day ends with a sad, painful story and dying hopes. Last Sunday, it ended with the news of the passing away of Ilahi Bakhsh, the father of former BSO chairman Zahid Baloch who has been in the illegal custody of Pakistani intelligence for the past six years. The old man waited ...

News Desk

Lack of progress in Sajid Hussain case

A month and a half has passed since Sajid Hussain disappeared in Sweden and the police have still not been able to find out what has happened to him. The fact that he went missing in a European country is a source of grave concern for his friends and family. But it should be worrisome ...

Sohrab Baloch

کُرئونا، کوارنٹین و ساجد هُسئین

من ساجد ندیستگ بَلِه گِندگا وه چد و پێش جهانا کُرئونا هم ندیستگ، بَس چیزے ماه اِنت که جهانا آتکگێن وَبا ’کُرئونا‘ آ مردمی جان و مالی تاوانانی بنیادا مردمانی تها مزنێن بێتاهیریے ودی کرتگ. هر رۆچیێن هالانی وانگا پد برے برے من همے مارِتگ که منا هم کُرئونا مبیت   من چه کسانیا نئوشاتر، ...

Mureed Baloch

Politics in the time of the pandemic

Who would’ve thought history would take such a turn where Africa will shut its borders to the rest of the world? Scientists say it started because a man ate a sick bat. And now we have the entire human race running for its life. With all the science and millennia of knowledge to cure illnesses ...

Mehlab Naseer

ساجد، تئو که دێر کرت

تئو، اڑئے چه کرئونایا مسترێن ٹاپکے اتۓ. دردناکتِرێن. چۆ گندۓ دنیاۓ وشترێن گپ و چیز بتئورێننت، نون ما انچُش اتێن ساجد.  نون ما کُدَگا اتێن. نون یکّے دومیۓ چمّانی تها چارت کنگا نه‌اتێن. چیا که هر کسی چمّانی درد پوره گێشتر اَت. نون ما سِدان اتێن. نون ما اێوک بئیان اتێن… نون ما درامد بئیان ...