The floods in Balochistan have left a trail of destruction and ruin. Years of infrastructural neglect and the absence of urban and rural planning have added to the severity of the devastation. Balochistan has for years shown signs of water shortage and deforestation that, with the added effect of climate change and unsustainable agricultural and ...
Last Sunday, the Counter-Terrorism Department picked up a woman in district Kech and claimed she was planning to carry out a suicide attack on Chinese nationals. The contents of the FIR against the 40-year-old Noor Jan could not have been more fictional. The CTD is known to register fake cases. An M.Phil student, Abdul Hafeez, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In 2013, Saeeda Hameed became the first girl in her family to leave her hometown of Zehri in Khuzdar district of Balochistan to pursue an education in the cosmopolitan city of Karachi. Other girls of her age in the family had already got married and mostly looked after their children. Saeeda now goes to university ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
Nakia Qambrani
Sajid Hussain