Articles for category: Opinion

Noroz Hayat

No justice in Balochistan

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 ...

Shehzad Obaid

ساجد، منی فلوبارٹ

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 ...

Gulzar Gichki

سبزل سامگی: زِند و اِزم

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 ...

Noroz Hayat

Mehráni Gelagdáré

“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 ...

Yasir GM

مُرتگێن جۆنێۓ رُدگ

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 ...

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

Who is to blame?

Augusts do not augur well for Baloch people. Not that other months are any less gory and less punishing for them but somehow this month becomes painful for a reason of its own. To mention just a few; on August 26 falls the martyrdom of Nawab Akbar Bugti who was unlawfully killed in the Marri ...

Sameer Mehrab

Systematic violence in Balochistan

The Coronavirus pandemic has changed the world forever with some governments even contemplating providing universal health care and living wages to all citizens. But what has not changed is the systematic violence by the Pakistani state against unarmed Baloch civilians. Abductions, torture and summary executions by the security forces are the order of the day ...

Yusra Atta

Turbat doesn’t feel like home anymore

The past few months have felt nothing more than changing hashtags. First, the hashtag was Bramsh, an innocent child who had been injured and her mother murdered before her eyes. Then we were introduced to #JusticeForKulsoom, seeking punishment for killers of a woman whose throat had been slit at her home and that too in ...

Imran Nur

بےدَروَرین تامُر مَلار

“و ڈائریئے سرجمێں تاک اِسپێت اسپێت اِتنت بس یک تاکێئے سرا نِبشته اَت: ”برے برے بے مکسدا اۆں بِکند”اے ملارئے بنداتی گپ اَنت بَله وهدے که آسرا رَسئے، ته الّم مُلورَ بئے، گرێوگیَ بئے، ترا سَما بیت که چیزے پَشت کپت، تئو جێڑئے که چُش چیا بوت؟ و پدا تئیی دلَ گوَشیت بکند، بے مکسدا ...

Mahnoor Mirwani

The smile that we lost

Every time I entered my classroom, I saw over a dozen students and a smile. A captivatingly genuine smile that made him what he was: Hayat, life. Ah, the irony. You would always find him smiling, a smile that reached your heart. He had this art of easing the tensest of situations. He would crack ...