The issue of missing persons in Balochistan has taken a heavy toll on friends and family of those abducted by Pakistan’s security forces. Thousands of Baloch political activists and human rights advocates have been ‘disappeared’ without any warrant, most languishing in torture cells for years, others ending up dead and mutilated. This trauma is a ...
بلۆچی زێمرئے تاریخ باز کوهن اِنت. پهلئوانی دئورا بلۆچی اهدی شئیر و شئیروَند جنَگ بوتگ. آیانی وتی اسَر و شیرکنیے. پدا وَڑ وڑێں گیدی سئوت، زهیرگ، لیلۆ و نازێنک جنگ بوتگ، اِشانی وتی اسَرے بوتگ.اے درهێں رَنگ شَرّ گۆش دارگ و ساڑایَگ بوتگ‌اَنت. پَدا نۆکێں دئورے بِندات بوتگ. هاس هِندی ساز و زێمِرا بلۆچیئے گۆش ...
Families of some abducted Baloch activists recently complained about the behaviour of members of a commission formed by the government for the recovery of missing persons. A few said they were even told not to appear before the commission if they were not satisfied with its workings. They were ridiculed and asked the same basic ...
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 ...
Banari Mengal
Nakia Qambrani