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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 ...

Maryam Khanzai

Distorting Balochistan’s history

  The State of Pakistan has tried since the Partition to distort the history of Balochistan. The mostly-planted governments in Balochistan often pass propaganda as historical facts, just as Jam Kamal did recently, while conveniently forgetting that our past is well documented. Balochistan was an independent country and did not want to be merged with ...

Noroz Hayat

کَلمانٹ

درانڈێھیۓ زند جُنزان اَت گۆن مزدوری و دگه چِست و اێران۔ منی گێشتر جھد ھمش اَت که من وتا دَزگَٹ بکناں گۆن چیزے نه چیزێا۔ پرچا که من ھمے که پارِگ بوتان، منا وتی مێتگ، مێتگۓ مردم، کئور، کۆه، جنگل و سنگت باز یات آتکنت. و من نَلۆٹِت که منا وتی مێتگ، مُلک یات بیاینت۔ ...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

من نزانتگ ساجد ھسئین بلۆچیا هم بلَد اِنت اَزیز بلۆچ ائولی رندا من بلۆچیا آزمانکے نبشته کرتگ‌اَت، دگه نامێۓ سَرا، وتی اَسلی ناما نه. همے وھدا سۆشل میڈیایا منی چم په بلۆچستان‌ٹائمزۓ ساییٹا کپتنت. اے تاکۓ اسٹئینڈردڑ و رسانکدری بالادا منا لاچار کرت که گێشتر بچارانی. من که اے تاکۓ بالاد گۆن بلۆچانی اندگه تاکان ...