Articles for category: Opinion

News Desk

Karima Baloch’s funeral

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 ...

Sameer Mehrab

My sister Karima deserved better

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 ...

News Desk

Gwadar fencing

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 ...

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 ...