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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, ...

News Desk

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 ...

Sameer Mehrab

مئے وتی ڈان و سانچو 2

ڈان کِهوٹئے که چه مُسافرخانها در آتک، سَک گَل اَت، تئو بگوش گَلا بال اَت که واهگ ای پورا بوتگ. نوں ڈان منّتگیں شهسوارے اَت. آییا مسافرخانهئے واجهئے هما پنتانی سرا پکر کت که آییا گوشتگ‌اَت، ڈان! لهتیں چیز الّمی اِنت که هر شهسئوارئے هُرداں ببیت. یکے وَه زَرّ، دومی لهتیں شُشتگیں پَشک، و یک ...

Lateef Johar

Is army extorting money in Balochistan?

As enforced disappearances and kill-and-dump operations continue in Balochistan, an increasing number of evidence is surfacing to prove Pakistan army’s involvement in extorting money from the families of victims. On August 20, 2019, a friend sent me a link to a news story on WhatsApp with the headline: “[Pakistan] Army major gets life term for ...

Mahganj Taj

The statue

This short story by Altaf Baloch has been translated, from Balochi, by Mahganj Taj.   He lived alone and there was nobody else living in the entire city. He was so fond of his loneliness that no one else settled there but himself. The city was so lively and beautiful that it could bring back ...

Sameer Mehrab

مۓ وتی ڈان و سانچۆ

ڈان کِهئوٹئے، نان تهنا هسپانوی و جھانی ادبئے تها کلاسِکے منّگ بیت بلکێن اگان جهانا چه بایبل و کُرانا رند ێک کتابے سک باز وانگ بوتگ، گڑا همێش انت. اے ناول میگویل سروَنتِسا، ھبدھُمی کرنا نبشته کتگ۔ چه دهمی کرنا بگر تان پانزدهمی کرنا، یورپئے تها شهسوار و نایٹانی کسّه سکّ مشهور بوتگ‌انت. اے کسّه ...