In 2013, Saeeda Hameed became the first girl in her family to leave her hometown of Zehri in Khuzdar district of Balochistan to pursue an education in the cosmopolitan city of Karachi. Other girls of her age in the family had already got married and mostly looked after their children. Saeeda now goes to university ...
Balochistan occupies a unique spot in the national imagination of Pakistan. It is a land often portrayed by the mainstream media and the political elite of the country as a faraway place where things defy socio-economic and political reality. It is somewhere where secessionist designs were plotted by some unruly sardars and leftist student organizations ...
“I am not a terrorist. You never believed it when I said I was right,” Karima finished angrily as she stood up before we walked out of the office. The Canadian Borders Service Agency officer, a lady who at the beginning of the meeting had walked in with a straight face, had now humbled down ...
Tirmáhi róch, déh o baláháni máhá bist at o Sayshambehay digaray wahd at. Órmárhah jambarchakkén bazén nódán wati bazén bikkáni sáhegá mán póshetagat. Nód narm narm o lahm lahmá shanzagá at, kawsh wassh wasshá kasshagá at. Bahesht agan mán é emrózá jáhéay nám ent, gorhá hamesh ent. Cha é warhén sárt o hónakén jágahá gón ...
تیرماهی رۆچ، دێه و بَلاهانی ماها بیست اَت و سئیشَمبِهئے دیگرئے وهد اَت. اۆرماڑه جمبَرچَکّێں بزێں نۆداں وتی بزێں بیکّانی ساهگا مان پۆشتگ‌اَت. نۆد نرم نرم و لهم لهما شنزگا اَت، کئوش وشّ وشّا کَشّگا اَت. بهِشت اگں ماں اے امرۆزا جاهێئے نام اِنت، گڑا همِش اِنت. چه اے وڑێں سارت و هۆنَکێں جاگها گۆں ...
(Translated into English by Noroz Hayat and Carina Jahani) It was a hot summer day, the twentieth of the month of Tir, a Tuesday evening. The sea fog, thick as clouds, had engulfed the coastal town of Ormarah in the shadow of its hair-locks. Drops of moisture were showering down softly and tenderly; a mild ...
Residents of Gwadar recently blocked the Makkoran coastal highway in protest. They were not asking for much. They just wanted water, electricity and a right to go to the sea — their own sea. But wait, were we not told in the early 2000s that in the then-near future Gwadar would become, depending on the ...
Jergahá mokaddemahay dráhén tak o pahnátáni yak sarjamén rapórthé dém dátagat o sepáreshi kortagat ke Dawlat Háná wati neshár gón darámadén mardéá geptag o doén hamé jágahá koshtagant. Sahtiay sur gón Dawlat Hánay kasterén brát Mohabbat Háná do sál sári butagat. Surá shash máhá rand, áiá Dabaiá rózgáré rasetagat. Yak o ném sálá rand áiay ...
جرگها مُکدّمهئے دراهێں تک و پهناتانی یک سرجمێں رپۆرٹے دێم داتگ‌اَت و سِپارشی کرتگ‌اَت که دئولت خانا وتی نِشار گۆں دَرامَدێں مردێا گپتگ و دوێنی همے جاگها کُشتگ‌اَنت سهتیئے سور گۆں دئولت خانئے کسترێں برات محبّت خانا دو سال ساری بوتگ‌اَت. سورا شَش ماها رند، آییا دَبئیا رۆزگار رَستگ‌اَت. یک و نێم سالا رند آییئے ...
Yak baré ke taw nám kaptay ke Balóchiay nebeshtehkáré ay, mardom awali kárá hameshiá kanant ke har chizzay Balóchiá cha taw josta kanant. Kaséá jost kort ke kampyuthará Balóchiá ché gwashant? Man nazánt. Dega kaséá hál kort: Salám Ostád! Mani del cha poppán sest. Bale hayr. Hál kort. Ostád, Sinimáthógráphek Ekpreshanay Balóchi ché ent? Man ...
Akram Dashti
Sajid Hussain
Abdullah Abbas