Karima called me while on her way to the Pearson airport, Toronto. She was heading to Montreal for the hearing of her asylum case which had been delayed for two years. She told me she had received a call from our younger sister back home that there were unconfirmed reports about the discovery of a ...
When I was the Senior Joint Secretary of the Baloch Students Organization-Hai (BSO-Hai), I had to visit the Makran region for an organizational tour. I first travelled from Quetta to Turbat on a passenger coach where I called a meeting of the Senior Body of the BSO at the Turbat college hostel. My second stop ...
Change has been a constant driving force in the human history and evolution. Sometimes this change is forced by nature and we submit to it and it is called adaption, and sometimes this change is driven by us to alter the status quo and it is called revolution. The latter is a fuzzy word or ...
This article is in response to Nodan Baloch’s opinion piece, War Profiteers of Balochistan, published in Balochistan Times on December 24, 2017. Although I agree with Nodan Baloch that all wars attract profiteers and there are people who have benefited or tried to benefit from the conflict in Balochistan, I strongly disagree with some of ...
I first heard the term ‘war profiteer’ when I was in the fourth class. Our teacher would use it in the context of Afghanistan insurgents and Pakistani generals after Afghanistan lost its buffer zone status in the aftermath of the interference of former Soviet Union during the regime of Hafizullah Amin. Pakistani generals like Akhtar ...
Balochistan means the land of the Baloch, the inhabitants and owners of this mineral-rich land. Yet they are downtrodden and are far behind as compared to the Punjabis, Pakistan’s upper-hand nation. Very few scholars have researched and written about the history of the Baloch nation. Some of them believe that the Baloch is an Aryan ...
In the era of the social and electronic media, privacy has become a problem even for heads of world powers like the chancellor of Germany or the prime ministers of France and the UK. Unfortunately, in the Third World, the media is still dictated by the establishment. It also suffers from self-censorship due to the ...
Ideologies do change human behaviour and the way we think. As a matter of fact, it sometimes changes your entire standpoint about relevant things and subject matters. You stop thinking out of the box, everything is emotion-derived and narrative-prescribed. It’s like being a Jihadi with a little more brain. Because when things don’t make sense, ...
Recently the Pakistani army chief, during his visit to Quetta, said that the army would provide full support to the federal and provincial governments for the execution and success of ‘Khush Hal Balochistan’ (KHB) programme. This initiative aimed at development of the province was discussed at a meeting presided over by the army chief during ...
As the Baloch across the world are crying foul over the ‘abduction’ of their women and children by security forces, it is consoling to reminisce about the not-so-distant past when our women and children enjoyed a happier life with some significant powers. Baloch women realized their power and freedom in 2005. It was the year ...
Taj Baloch
Shehzad Obaid
