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Police crack down on medical students in Quetta

The police on Wednesday cracked down on the protesting medical students of the Bolan University of Medical and Health Sciences (BUMHS) who had gathered outside the Balochistan Assembly to ask the government for better conditions on the campus. They have been protesting for the last 40 days inside the university campus against the administration against ...

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The future of Omani Baloch, after Qaboos is gone

If the people of Makran, living both in Iran as well as in Pakistan, have ever truly loved a monarch, it was undeniably Sultan Qaboos of Oman. His framed portraits, especially the ones where he is wearing a military uniform, hang friendly in many mud homes of the arid and under-developed coastal region. At a ...

Karima Baloch

Homeland buries beneath another friend

Karima Baloch is a former chairperson of the Baloch Students Organization and one of BBC’s top 100 women in 2016. She lives as a political refugee in Canada. We grew together, played together and shared the same toys that we had invented ourselves. We, the two girls, wandered around the Nihing river, the surrounding mountains ...

Sameer Mehrab

A Baloch New Year’s resolution: not to get whisked away

Now that the New Year is upon us people around the world are coming up with new resolutions:  losing weight, quit smoking or go to a world tour. But these resolutions are for normal people.  For us, the people of Balochistan, a New Year’s resolution would sound something like this: how to not get abducted, ...

Lateef Johar

Retired UAE police sergeant forcibly disappeared in Karachi

A Baloch who previously worked as a sergeant in the United Arab Emirates police has been whisked away by security forces just after he arrived in Karachi. Haji Abdul Samad, apparently in his sixties, posted a video on the Facebook Page News Gidroshia, saying his brother, Haji Sher Jan, was detained at the Jinnah International ...

Taj Baloch

بلۆچی گْرامرئے سرا کارینه جهانیئے کتاب چاپ و شنگ بوتگ

بلۆچی زبانئے سرا نبشته کنگ نۆزدهمی کرنا هما وهدا بندات بوتگ که برتانیهئے پئوجارا بلۆچی زبانئے در برگئے زلورت بوتگ۔ آ وهدا بلۆچی زبانئے جندارا نبشتهێں شکلے نبوتگ۔ چه آ زمانگا بگر داں انّونا بلۆچی زبانئے بازێں پهناتانی سرا بازێں کارے بوتگ بله چُشێں کتابے نێست که تئو بگوَشئے که بلۆچی زبانئے سرجمێں بُنرَهبند (گرامر) ...

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Accused Baloch women sent to prison for lack of women-only lock-ups

The four Baloch women forcibly disappeared by paramilitary personnel and then handed over to the civilian law enforcers last week have now been shifted to prison for lack of women-only lock-ups at the police station. The Anti-Terrorism Department had requested a judicial magistrate yesterday, December 2, to let them shift the women, booked on terrorism ...

Sajid Hussain

کسّهے په چُکّاں: زئیتکئے دومی کسّه

بیت مردے، بیت جنے. مردا و جنا بیت دو چُک: جنکّ و بچکّے. جِنکّئے نام بیت زئیتک. اشانی مات مُرت و پتا دگه جنێنے گپت. چه دومی جنێنا هم جِنکّے بوتی. پِتا، زئیتک چه آ دگه چُکّان دۆستر بوت. جاگهێا شُت، زئیتکی همراه کُت، کارے بوتی، زئیتکی تئوار پِر کُت، زرّے بوتی، زئیتکئے دات. بازارئے ...

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Four Baloch women forcibly picked up since yesterday

Update: The four Baloch women forcibly disappeared by paramilitary FC personnel yesterday were handed over to the civilian Levies force earlier today. Awaran’s Levies officials released a photo of the women, claiming they were arrested for possession of arms and ammunition.   Pakistan’s security forces have reportedly whisked away at least four Baloch women from ...