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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
August is a dreaded month in Balochistan. It’s full of important, painful dates, with almost every year adding yet another death anniversary in the calendar. This year has already added Hayat Baloch to the list — and, frighteningly, we are still only about halfway through the month. In August, Balochistan experiences violence as the security ...
من گۆن ساجد حسینا هچ دُچار نکَپتگان و گۆن آییا هچ گپ و تران هم نبوتگ. من ائولی رندا ساجد حسینئے نام هما وهدا اِشکُتگ که من آییئے نبشتانک چه بلۆچستان‌ٹایمزا ونتگ‌اَت. منا یاتَ نبیت که کجام نبشتانک اَت بله چِد و پێش من ساجد حسینئے بابتا، منی هئیالا هجبر نه‌اِشکتگ. اَنچۆ که کرۆنائے زمانگ ...
دلگۆش: اے نبشتانک تاکبند ‹بام› 2009آ چاپ و شِنگ بوتگ. گْوَستگێن امریکی سَدر هئیری ٹرومئینا گوشتگ‌اَت: ‹منا وتی مهلوکاتئے سرا بزّگَ بیت که چه هالتاکئے وانَگا همے وَشمَنّیا گرپتار اِنت که آ دنیائے چست و اێرانی بارئوا سرپد اِنت››. دنیائے تها همک رۆچ هزاران سیاسی، سماجی، ماشی چست و اێرَ بیت بله چه اِشان تهنا ...
دلگۆش: اے سمّی بلۆچئے انگرێزی نبشتانکے بوتگ که احسان حیدرا په بلۆچستان‌ٹایمزئے وانۆکان بلۆچیا تَرّێنتگ. مرچی ائیید اِنت بله شادمانی کنگئے بدلا،ما په وتی بێگواهێن مردمان پرِس کلبا رئوێن. ما وتی کارا مَهتل داشتَ نکنێن پرچا که مئے بێگواه کنۆک هم وتی کارا مهتلَ نکنت. رمزان بیت یا ائیید، بێگواه کنۆک وتی کارا متهلَ نکننت. ...
It’s Eid today and, instead of celebrating, we will be in front of a press club asking for our family members. We cannot stop because those who abduct us never do. Ramzan or Eid, they do not rest. In my homeland, our loved ones disappear almost every day. We find deformed bodies in deserts and ...
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