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What’s up with Pakistan?

What’s up with Pakistan’s nuclear threats at the UNGA? Zahid and Mureed discuss the complications of Pakistan’s civil and military relation. https://soundcloud.com/user-871791679/whats-up-with-pakistan

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What is Liberal Nationalism?

In this episode, our podcast panelists Zahid, Sameer and Mureed discuss liberal nationalism, free trade and today’s America for our Balochi listeners. https://soundcloud.com/user-871791679/what-is-liberal-nationalism

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Quetta’s women doctors defiant after police threw them out of BMC hostel 

Quetta’s female doctors, house officers and medical students are protesting outside the Governor’s House, after police stormed their hostels three days ago to force them out.  Female doctors and medical students of the Bolan Medical College (BMC) have been protesting against what they call ‘arbitrary allotments’ at the girls’ hostel for last many months. In ...

Sadaf Iqbal Baloch

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China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: An introduction

One Belt One Road (OBOR) or the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is China’s one trillion dollars transport and trade infrastructure grand vision to connect China to the rest of the world. Announced in 2013, belt refers to the road and railway networks and the road to the sea routes. It features several economic corridors: ...

Zahid Abdulla

 ممرادئے بئیٹکئے سنیما

کسانیا من سکّ لَٹّ وارتگ۔ سک شئیتان بوتگاں۔ ما که نُنّک هم بوتگیں، مارا سئے چیزا مکن کنگ بوتگ۔ ائولی اے که مَگربا رند ڈَنّا رئوگ نیست۔ دومی پیروئے هوٹلئے کَشا هم گوَزگی نه‌اِنت۔ اے دویں کانون من سَک کم رندا پروشتگ‌اَنت۔ بله بیا که سئیمی کانونئے سرا من ماهے سئے چار رندا لازم لٹّ ...

Sameer Mehrab

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The Headless Woman captures ghosts of the missing on camera

The Headless Woman, or La Mujer Sin Cabeza, released in 2008, is the third feature film by the highly-regarded Argentian director Lucrecia Martel. Her prior films Swamp and Holy Girl also deal with similar subjects. The Headless Woman is almost universally praised for its cinematic form, as the director does not suggest anything through the ...

Noroz Hayat

Why I Left Home: The story of a Baloch refugee

I am obsessed with reading novels, short stories, or any literature about people who left their homes, were expelled from their countries or persecuted. A part of keeping informed is I don’t get weary of watching movies and documentaries about the lives of refugees or victims of torture and imprisoned for unjust reasons. Of course, ...

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Baloch woman accuses Pakistan’s ISI of abduction, torture

A video of a young Baloch woman, Hani Gul, is making rounds on the social media in which she accuses officials of Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency, ISI, of torturing her and her fiancé at a secret detention center for months. Gul, who appears to be in her 20s, says she and Mohammad Naseem, to whom ...