By Asma Akhtar and Imrana Rasheed Whenever history recalls feminine courage, women’s heroic contribution and their unchallenged determination, Banadi Rind appears as an epitome. Banadi belongs to a Baloch tribe of warriors: the Rinds. According to Balochistan ke Qabahil by Manzoor Bukhari, Rind is a Persian word, which means “brave”. According to some legends, Rinds ...
A few days ago, I woke up in the morning pondering over the recent clash between Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) and the Pakistan Army in which the latter opened indiscriminate firing on unarmed civilians causing many casualties. The tweet of the Director General ISPR, Major General Asif Ghafoor, was echoing in my ears: “Identity crisis ...
We live in wavering times. The changes which took prolonged epochs and eras to occur can now take place in sequences of transitory spans. The German sociologist, Ulrik Beck, called this swiftly changing or post-modern world a risk society. Though he came to this conclusion primarily on the bases of his sociological understanding of the world, I ...
A few days ago in North Waziristan, Pakistani army attacked a peaceful public rally headed by elected members of the National Assembly Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar. The army claimed it was in their defence that they opened fire at the protesters. It claimed Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar were leading an armed assault on ...
On Saturday, May 11, 2019, four gunmen stormed the luxury Pearl Continental hotel in the heavily-guarded city of Gwadar, a port-city that Pakistan has been long advertising as the “safest” in ensuring China’s success with its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), all thanks to the host country’s uptight security measures. The media-savvy operation, claimed by ...
On Feb 18, 2019, online Baloch activists shared a picture of a smiling eight-year-old child with a caption that read that Bohair was an eight-month-old infant when his father, Atiq Ur Rahman, was abducted by Pakistan military and he is still missing. Atiq was taken away during a late-night raid on his house in Khuzda’r ...
This report, by Riaz Sohail, was published by the BBC Urdu service on March 13, 2019. Yousuf Murad has translated it from Urdu. In a remote uninhabited area about 30 km from the Pakistani city of Quetta, a new – two-and-half-year-old — settlement is sprawling. This settlement belongs to unidentified bodies. It is the ...
انسانی زندءَ سک باز دیمروی کُتگ۔ بیستءُ یکمی کرنءِ دومی دہک اِنت۔ انسانی زند ہچبر چو گوں وتی اوزاراں ہمگرنچ نبوتگ کہ مرچی اِنت۔ ما یک مزنیں تبدیلی یےءِ عہدءَ زِندگیں۔ ٹیکنالوجی سرجمیں انسانی زندگیءَ مٹینگا اِنت۔ اے تبدیلیءِ بُن ہشت وانگءُ زانگ اِنت۔ انفارمیشن اِنت۔ پیسرا انسانءِ دماغءَ وتی اوزار کار بستگ اَنت۔ فکر ...
Family members and friends lost connection with Sarfaraz Ahmed, 20, a student at the Department of Psychology of Peshawar University, at the midnight of Feb 13, this year. Sarfaraz was expected in Dera Ghazi Khan (D.G. Khan), a Baloch-dominated city in Punjab, by 11:00 am the following day to spend time with his student friends. ...
نبشته کار قمبر مالک خورشید کریم بنی آدم ءِ بنکّی ارزشت چاگرد ءَ گوں بندوک انت ءُ چاگرد ءَ لہتیں دودمانی میار مہکم ءُ توانا کننت۔ ہمے دودمانی میاراں چه درستاں گیشتر توانا زبان انت۔ زبان ءِ بندات ءُ آئی ءِ دیمروئی ءِ سرا بازیں گمان ءُ مپروزہ ہست انت کہ ایشانی سرا کلیں زبانزانت ...
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