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 ...
Note: This is an English translation of Sajid Hussain’s Balochi piece Darándhéhi pa saré o shegán pa saré The story of my exile began on that unfortunate day when an ill-fated interest in literature came over me. It seems that every writer I liked had been in exile at some time. Marquez had been, Kundera too. ...
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 مرچی یک کبرستانێا شتگ اتان. تپلانی کبرستانے اَت. اِدا هما مردم کَلّ اَنت که چه مرگا پێسر مُرتگ‌اَتنت، هما که آیانی ساه چه ملکموتئے آیگا پێسر کَبز کنگ بوتگ‌انت. اے هما تِپل اَتنت که گۆن وتی ناسرجمێن واب و ناسرجمێن واهشتاں کَل اَنت. من همدا گۆں یک اسپێت‌پۆشاکێن تِپلێا دُچار کپتاں. سکێں شئوکێں بچکے ...
Frontier Corps (FC) soldiers deliberately targeted Hayat Baloch and the claims that he was killed in an exchange of fire between suspected militants and the security forces are false, according to witnesses. “I saw five or six FC men beating him,” an eyewitness told the Balochistan Times on the condition of anonymity. “Whenever he raised ...
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 ...
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