Articles for category: Opinion

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 ...

Naimat Haider

Balochistan leaders’ emoji war

After words of taunt over a Coronavirus ward were seemingly not conveying the right images, leaders in Balochistan on Thursday started an emoji war. Current and former chief ministers, MPAs and spokesmen all took part. They laughed, cried and rolled on the floor, while Twitter watched. It began with poetry. “This is just really sad,” ...

Yousuf Murad Baloch

The man who ran out of luck

I had always thought of Balochistan as a land of poets and storytellers until I was introduced to yet another perspective the other day. “Balochistan is the land of lucky people,” said my local Pakistani shopkeeper here in Germany with an envious smirk. “All of the Baloch get asylum here.” The perspective of the lucky ...

News Desk

Uzair Baloch the lonely gangster

Uzair Baloch was on Monday produced before an antiterrorism court after Pakistan army handed him over to the prison authorities. He had been in the army’s custody for three years. Uzair Baloch is the last living boss of the decades-long Lyari Gang War. All his friends — and enemies — have over the years been ...

Lateef Johar

No peace for Balochistan

Nothing stops the Pakistani army from violating the Baloch people’s rights, not even natural calamities. There have been reports of enforced disappearances in Balochistan on a daily basis despite a call from the United Nations to stop armed activity during the ongoing global pandemic. The army in fact tries to cash in on natural disasters ...

ساجد هُسئین، اهوالکاری و بێگواهی

من پئیسبُکپا ساجد هسئینۓ گپ و ترانے اشکت. یکّے آییا سویڈنۓ بارئوا جستَ کنت که چۆنێن ملکے؟ گوشیت که اے ملکۓ مردم وتی جاگها ادۓ کُچکّان هم کس دست جتَ نکنت. کچک هم مهپوز اَنت. تربت تهسیلۓ سۓ ورنا، کَدّ و اُمرا سَر و نێمسرَ بنت. ساجد هُسئین، شاهمیر بلۆچ و سئیمی کیّا کادر. اِشان ...

Taj Baloch

ساجد، پلیز واتَر کن

دلگۆش: اے نبشتانک نامیێن اهوالکار و ناول‌نویس مهمد هنیفا په بی بی سی اردوا نبشته کرتگ و تاج بلۆچا په بلۆچستان‌ٹایمزا بلۆچیا رجانک کرتگ ێکے وه اِش که چه سجّهێنان سۆگه‌تِر اَت. کۆهان سر کپگۓ هچ شئوکی نێست‌اَت. ٹئینکانی دێما وپسگۓ واهگی نێست‌اَت. سیاستی انچۆ کُرت که پورا نۆکێن سازێۓ جنَگ در برَگا اِنت. اهوالکاری‌ای ...