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Ehsan Haider

بلۆچ چاگردا نسل‌پرستی

دلگۆش: اے بلۆچستان‌ٹایمزئے انگرێزی شۆنگالے که اِحسان حیدرا بلۆچیا رجانک کرتگ امریکها ھئوار دُنیائے اے دگه ھند و دمَگان اهتجاج و شۆران چاگردانی تها چه کرنان بئیۆکێن نسل‌پرستیئے جاک یکبرے پدا زندگ کُرتگ۔ امریکهئے شهر منیاپولسا پولیسئے دستان افریکی امریکی مردئے ھۆن انساپئے هَکدار اِنت و اکلیتان اے هَک هست‌اِنت که یکّێن چمّا چارگ ببنت، ...

Carina Jahani

Where are you, my son?

In memory of Sajid Hussain I remember well the first time you came to my office. It must have been in the early autumn of 2017. You were a bit shy. Taj did most of the talking. Would I be OK with you applying for political asylum in Sweden? “Yes, of course, it is your ...

News Desk

Racism in Baloch society

The protests in the US and across the world have once again highlighted the age-old debate of just how racist our societies are. The African-American man that was murdered by the police in Minneapolis deserves to get justice, and the minorities have every right to be treated as equals in practice and not just in ...

Taj Baloch

انساپئے لۆٹ و انکارئے دۆد

چار سالی نُنُّک، برَمش که بیست و شَش مئییا تربتا ٹَپّی بوت ته سجّهێن بلۆچان وتی سالانی بےبرَمشی هلاس کرت و مێتگ و بازاران در آتکنت. برَمشئے مات بیبی ملکناز چه همے دُزّانی تیران بێرانَ بیت که برمشئے دلبندا لگّنت. لۆگئے مردم یک دُزّے گِرنت و اندگه دو تچیت. دُزّا کارڈے کیسگا بیت، اِم آییئے ...

News Desk

مَلکناز و بلۆچئے برمش

بازێن زهرشانیێا رند تُربت پولیسا ملکناز ئے کُشۆک و برمشئے ٹَپّی کنۆکێن دُزّانی سرۆک سمیر سبزل دزگیر کُرت۔ اے شَرّێن گامگێجے۔ بله اے هبر چارگی اِنت که بارێن اے مرد سِزا دئیگَ بیت اگن نه پرچا که اے وڑێن دروَر باز اِنت که ھر ھما مردم که آییا پاکستانئے اِجنسیانی دست سرا بوتگ، آ په  ...

Sameer Mehrab

Protests against injustice

We are living in a strange world. A pandemic ravages through communities across the globe. We witnessed a repeat of police brutality against African-Americans in the killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police which sparked protests throughout the USA and around the world. This sounds gruesome enough, but on May 26 I received news ...

News Desk

Little Bramsh and death squads in Kech

  Even by Balochistan’s standards of chaos, Tuesday’s incident with four-year-old Bramsh in Dannuk, Kech, was particularly gut-wrenching. The baby girl was shot and injured, and her mother, Maliknaz, killed at their home reportedly by members of a state-backed local gang of robbers in the middle of the night. One of the thugs caught by ...

The epidemic that wiped out an entire village

  A terrible Hamen Gohar does not remember her father. She was no more than 4 years old when the Waba (the epidemic) came and killed most of her family. Her memories of her father and the Waba are the stories passed on to her by her mother and grandmother, the stories of horror, trauma ...

Zahid Abdulla

18th Amendment and Pakistan’s ‘unlucky document’

  Pakistan has a tumultuous constitutional history and it once again seems to be in the grip of a constitutional controversy. There are whispers that the generals are making plans to undo the 18th Amendment, passed a decade ago in 2010, that empowered to some extent the units of the Federation. Although it has been ...