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Mureed Baloch

Hope you like it, Sajid

First of all, this is messed up. There’s no other way to put it: Sajid Hussain has suddenly vanished. Where to? Nobody knows. Not even the otherwise proficient Swedish Police say they have a clue. What is going on? Where is Sajid Hussain? For a people who is used to having people go missing and ...

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Family says too early to accuse anyone in Sajid Hussain case

Family members of Sajid Hussain, who has been missing in Sweden since March 2, have said they are not yet accusing anyone in his disappearance case. According to them, it is an uncertain time for them and while they are thankful for the media coverage of the case, they are concerned about some speculative reports. ...

Naimat Haider

Since our friend is missing

What I’m doing here is not right. How could I be writing about the disappearance of the man who took special interest in how best to portray the Baloch missing persons’ cases? About the man who once said the dead did not haunt him as much as the missing did? That too on his own ...

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ساجد هُسئین سویڈنا بێگواه اِنت

بلۆچستان‌ٹایمزۓ سَرشۆنکار، بلۆچی زبانۓ لبزانت و انگرێزی زبانۓ نامیێن بلۆچ اهوالکار ساجد هُسئین چه 2 مارچا بێگواه اِنت. ساجدا 2007آ اهوالکاری  بندات کرتگ. پێسرا ڈئیلی ٹایمز و پدا گۆن دی نیوز انٹرنئیشنلا بندۆک بوتگ. ساجدۓ گۆن انگرێزی رۆتاکان اهوالکاریۓ اے سَپر تان 2012آ برجم بوتگ. ای نیاما ساجدا انگرێزی زبانا بلوچستانۓ بازێن سرهالانی سرا نبشته ...

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Chief editor Sajid Hussain went missing in Sweden

The editorial board of the Balochistan Times has decided to share the deeply concerning news about the disappearance of our Chief Editor, Sajid Hussain. He has been missing from Uppsala, Sweden, since March 2, 2020. A formal case was filed with the Swedish police on March 3, 2020. As of today, there is no clue ...

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Two Balochistan-based human rights groups announce merger

Two Balochistan-based human rights groups on Sunday announced their merger. The decision came in the midst of escalating rights abuses in war-torn Balochistan where thousands of cases of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings have come to limelight since early 2000s. The Human Rights Council of Balochistan (HRCB) and the Baloch Human Rights Organization (BHRO) announced ...

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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 ...