The people of Balochistan have for decades complained of living in oblivion in Pakistan. President Arif Alvi, during a recent visit to the region, confirmed such complaints to be just true when he found himself struggling to remember the names of Balochistan’s chief minister and governor. In a speech on February 19 to open the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
The parties of God are at it again. This time on a fairly sophisticated topic that stretches far beyond the reach of all the expertise of their religion-backed primitive science. A topic so sophisticated that not only encompasses the distinct scientific disciplines of biology, behavioral science and sociology but, to a larger extent, also flirts ...
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, ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
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