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 ...
On Thursday, thousands of people rallied to the Karachi Press Club to pay tributes to Karima Baloch and also demanded a thorough investigation into her death under circumstances that her family says are suspicious. The protesters called on Canada to carry out a deeper probe and ensure the truth is uncovered. They held pictures of ...
(This is an English translation by Carina Jahani of Noroz Hayat’s Balochi short story Haw Máti Tai Bacch Kóhestáná Ent) This distress of his was increasing day by day. It felt like a century since he had left his homeland, the Mountains. That homeland, that old country, and the people who live there, even though ...
آییئے همے وسواس رۆچ په رۆچ گێشتر بئیان اتنت، من وتی مُلک، کۆهستان، پوره یک کرنے بیت یله داتگ. هما مُلک، هما ڈێه و هما زمینئے سرئے نِشتگێن مردمان، بِلّ تُرے آ مرۆچی وڑ وڑێن جنجالانی آماچ اَنت، همایان منا یک پجّارے داتگ. نون بارێن آ مردم چۆن اَنت، چه بازێن بزّگی و لاچاریئے سپران ...
منا تئیی اۆماناں زُرتگ‌اَت. بله هما اِنت که تئو شتگئے، من هر رۆچ جێڑتگ که تئیی کبرئے سرا بیایاں، چے بگوشاں؟ چے بکناں؟ تئو که هست بوتگئے من دماں‌په‌ساهت تئیی کرّا آتکگاں که منا گۆں تئو کارے چیزّے بوتگ، تئیی گم پِر بوتگ که بارێں چۆن ائے. بله نوں من چیا پێداک آں. کبرێئے سرا ...
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 ...
نامیێں بلۆچ نبشته‌کار مهلب نسیرئے یکّێں چُک، چارده سالی رۆهێل، 7 دسمبر، دو شمبهئے سُهبئے ساهت دَها، سویڈنئے شهر اوپسالها زمینئے امبازاں دئیگ بوت. رۆهێل و مات نومبرئے ماها کرۆنائے نادراهیا گپتگ‌اتنت. رۆهێل تاں چارده رۆچا اوپسالهئے اکێدمِسکا هسپتالا اَت و همے هسپتالا 23 نومبرا بێران بوت.رۆهێلئے بێرانیئے هال که شنگ بوت ته سویڈنا چُکانی ...
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