Articles for category: Opinion

Riaz Baloch

Zahid Baloch: Eight years of enforced disappearance

It has been eight years since Zahid Baloch was abducted by Pakistan’s secret agencies on March 18, 2014, from Quetta. Zahid Baloch was abducted along with Assad Baloch, a student and resident of Tump, in the presence of Banuk Karima Baloch and other eyewitnesses. He was the chairman of Baloch Students Organization-Azad, the largest and ...

News Desk

BLA attacks

This week’s attacks by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) in Nushki and Panjgur proved that the uprising in Balochistan is truly alive. Only a few years ago, Pakistani authorities tried to believe that the Baloch militants were losing their support base and that their fight was on its deathbed. The Wednesday attacks were sophisticated, signalling ...

Taj Baloch

ما و آ: راجی جُنزئے گیشّێنتگێن دۆست و دژمن

گوَستگێن ماها بلۆچ آزادی‌پسُندێن پئوجێا لاهۆرا هبیب بئینکئے دپا، بێگاهئے پَنچ بَجا بمبے جَت. چه اے بَمبا دو کَس مُرت و دَها گێش ٹَپّی بوت. مُرتگێنانی تها یکّے کَشمیری نُه سالی گوَنڈۆے اَت. اے بَمب آ نێمَگا لاهۆرا ترَکِّت و اے نێمَگا بلۆچ آزادی‌پسُندێن گَلانی تها. لهتێنا گوَشت که اے تالِبان‌تَبێن جنگ په بلۆچا تاوان ...

Taj Baloch

Má o Á: Ráji jonzay gisshéntagén dóst o dozhmen

Gwastagén máhá Balóch ázádipasondén pawjéá Láhórá Habib Baynkay dapá, bégáhay panch bajá bambé jat. Cha é bambá do kass mort o dahá gésh thappi but. Mortagénáni tahá yakké Kashmiri noh sáli gwandhóé at. É bamb á némagá Láhórá trakket o é némagá Balóch ázádipasondén galáni tahá. Lahténá gwasht ke é Tálebántabén jang pa Balóchá táwán ...

Sameer Mehrab

Balochistan’s miseries are by design

Balochistan occupies a unique spot in the national imagination of Pakistan. It is a land often portrayed by the mainstream media and the political elite of the country as a faraway place where things defy socio-economic and political reality. It is somewhere where secessionist designs were plotted by some unruly sardars and leftist student organizations ...

Mureed Baloch

Karima’s ordeal in Canada

“I am not a terrorist. You never believed it when I said I was right,” Karima finished angrily as she stood up before we walked out of the office. The Canadian Borders Service Agency officer, a lady who at the beginning of the meeting had walked in with a straight face, had now humbled down ...

Ahmed Kulmeer

CPEC: the hype, the reality and the resistance

Residents of Gwadar recently blocked the Makkoran coastal highway in protest. They were not asking for much. They just wanted water, electricity and a right to go to the sea — their own sea. But wait, were we not told in the early 2000s that in the then-near future Gwadar would become, depending on the ...

Taj Baloch

Labz jérhagáni mát ant

Yak baré ke taw nám kaptay ke Balóchiay nebeshtehkáré ay, mardom awali kárá hameshiá kanant ke har chizzay Balóchiá cha taw josta kanant. Kaséá jost kort ke kampyuthará Balóchiá ché gwashant? Man nazánt. Dega kaséá hál kort: Salám Ostád! Mani del cha poppán sest. Bale hayr. Hál kort. Ostád, Sinimáthógráphek Ekpreshanay Balóchi ché ent? Man ...

Taj Baloch

لبز جێڑگانی مات اَنت

یک برے که تئو نام کپتئے که بلۆچیئے نبشته‌کارے ائے، مردم ائولی کارا همِشیا کننت که هر چیزّئے بلۆچیا چه تئو جستَ کننت. کَسێا جُست کرت که کمپوٹرا بلۆچیا چے گوَشنت؟ من نزانت دگه کسێا هال کرت: سلام اُستاد منی دل چه پُپّان سِست. بله هئیر. هال کرت اُستاد، سینیماٹۆگرافِک اِکپرِشَنئے بلۆچی چے اِنت؟ من ...