When my mother and I went to the airport in 2015 to leave my sister Karima Baloch, I told her the next time she would return, thousands would welcome her. Thousands indeed did. On January 24 this year, I could not believe I was going to the airport to receive the body of my beloved ...
‘It is mine, the decision to go back to Balochistan any time I want is mine. I won’t let Pakistan make that decision for me.’ These were Karima Baloch’s words to the BBC in 2016. Even in exile, Karima insisted she had never left her homeland, and despite all the threats and harassment from Pakistan’s ...
Pakistan’s security officials abducted Karima Baloch’s body from Karachi airport early Sunday morning. Against her family’s wish, armed soldiers escorted them and the ambulance carrying her body out of the city. Initially, we thought the thinking behind this drastic action was to stop the family from passing through Lyari on their way to Balochistan as ...
We were glad when Canadian authorities issued my sister Karima Baloch a visa due to her political activism in Balochistan and the threats to her life by the Pakistan army. We were thankful because, after years of hardships for our family and Balochistan, a Western progressive country recognised her work. We thought she would now ...
The decision to fence Gwadar has given validity to the concerns of Baloch people that Pakistan’s rulers have always seen Balochistan as a region of opportunities, but unfortunately not for the real inhabitants of the land. It has been clear for long the Gwadar development projects were not meant for the locals, yet the news ...
What’s happening in Balochistan is beyond sad. But we have to swallow this bitter truth. Numerous people have been whisked away, tortured in dungeons for years and thousands of decomposed bodies have been found in desolate places and, in some cases, tossed into mass graves. This killing of an unknown number of Baloch people has ...
نۆٹ: گستاو فلوباٹ، فرانسئے نامدارێں کِسّه‌کارے بوته، فرانسئے نامیێں کسّه‌کار موپاسانٹئے اُستاد هم بوته. گوشنت که موپاسانٹا هر کِسّه که نبشته کرتگ، فلوبارٹا آسدانێا چگل داته. موپاسانٹا آ وهدا اے هبر نپهمِته، بله رندا زانتگی که مُدام په وتی اُستادا شَرتِرێں کسّه نبشته کنگئے جُهدا، موپاسانٹ جهانئے مسترێن کسّه‌کارانی سْرَپا سَر کته. من اینچُک وھد ...
دلگۆش: اے نبشتانک چه ناکۆ سبزل سامگیئے بێران بئیگا لهتێن رۆچ پێسر نبشته کنگ بوتگ. بلۆچستان‌ٹایمز سئوت، بلۆچی زێمرئے وشّیئے تھرے. اے وشنۆدی مجلس، چۆش که ھامێن و اێرَھت، سور و سَربَر، بُرُّک و مُبارکی و اے دگه شاتکامی وھد و ساھتاں گْوشگ و جنگ بیت. اے بُندرا گێشتر بلۆچستانئے رۆاێرشُتی دَمَگ، مکران و کراچیا ...
“Mani bazzagi cha kabrá ganter ent. Man anchén Balóchestánéá tálók dárán ke ódá har saymi lóg hamé torsay ámách ent ke “mani chokkán nabarant?” Har domi lógá may chokk, may brát bégwáh ant. Har yak lógéá latth o kotthén jóné dast kaptag. Man hamá lógay mardom án, man hamá lógay victim án. Mani lógá mani ...
دلگۆش: ساجد حسینئے اے انگرێزی نبشتانک ایوولوشن آف اے ڈیڈ باڈی، 2016 آ بلۆچستان‌ٹایمزا شنگ بوتگ. انون واجه یاسرا په مئے وانۆکان بلۆچێا ترّێنتگ. بیست سالَگیا، نبشته‌کارے بئیگئے واهگدار، من په ھر ھما مردمئے گِندُکا ھُدۆک اتاں که یک نه یک وڑێا گۆں لبزانکا بندۆک اَت. من گۆں مردمێا دُچار کپتاں. 2002 آ. ما دوێنانی ...
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