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شئیرے چہ پُتینکاں: عطا شاد

دلگوش: ما بلوچ نبشتہ کارانی گچینے کَم کَمّا شنگ کنگا ایں۔ عطائے اے شئیر ہمے گچینئے بہرے۔ کَدّہئے سَررِچَگ مَرکا اَرزاں نَکنت (گوں یَک پرانسیسی ہِپّیےءَ نِند و نْیادے) سارترئے شَہرئے پِنڈوک کلدار و نیمئے ہَشیش آکِبَت سوچیں ایوکّیا تَنکَدا آسَریت؟ زندئے اے بَندیجاھا کہ ہوشام وت یَک خُمارے کَدّہئے سَررِچَگ مَرکا اَرزاں نَکنت مَرے ...

Sameer Mehrab

ما و دُنیا

دُنیایا کئوم ہست و تکریبَن گیشتریں کئوماں ملک ہم ہست۔ ہر کسا کہ ملک نیست، بزاں ماتا نئیاورتگ۔ ما بلوچ ہم انچیں کئومے ایں کہ مارا ملک و سرڈگار ہست بلہ دگرانی دستا ایں، مارا سیاسی واک و وتواجہی نیست۔ ما انچو گواتا گون ایں، بزاں ما بئے نہ ایں۔ پرچا؟ کہ دُنیا بے ایمان ...

Mureed Baloch

-- Internet photo

من و سیاست و دنیا

چارده سال پیش، کراچی  چو بوت کہ من ءُ سنگتے چہ ملّیر ءَ بس ءَ سوار سدّر ءَ روَگا اتیں. چه بس ءِ سواری ءَ پیسر سنگت ءَ منی گُوش ءَ گُشت کہ بٹواءِ خاس ھیال ء‌َ بدار:”ادا کیسّگاں چاکو ءِ سرا بُرّنت، بٹواءَ کَشّنت، و مردم سَہی نبیت“۔ داں ما سدّرءَ رستیں، من وتی ...

Sameer Mehrab

A letter to cousin Behrouz Bochani in Manus Island

Hey Behrouz Bochani, I will take the liberty of calling you Cousin. But don’t be taken aback or take me as a pusher. Let me explain. I am a Baloch from the Pakistani occupied Balochistan. My people, for some reason, believe that the Kurds are their cousins and somehow we got separated in the distant ...

Baloch writer making waves with his Youtube channel

The Turbat-born Baloch writer and film director is not the world’s top social media influencer, but he is arguably Balochistan´s most well-known face with a wide-ranging social media outreach. A Baloch would already know we are referring to Dr Haneef Shareef, for there is no one else from Balochistan with such an intellectual background so ...

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بلۆچی نبشته‌رَهبند

بلۆچستان ٹائمزئے شۆنکاری مجلسا شئور کرتگ که چد و دێم وتی نبشتهان اُپسالا یونیورسٹی سویڈنئے ٹهێنتگێن رهبندا کنت. نبشته‌رهبندئے جند همێش اِنت که شما اے وهدی گِندگا اێتی. نبشته‌رَهبندئے سرجمێن کتابا شُما چه یونیورسٹیئے وبساییٹا چارِتَ کنێت. ادا تهنا هما گچێنی هبر اَنت که اے رهبندا بلۆچی چۆن نبشته کنگَ بیت. جواناب وه سرجما گیشتگ‌اَنت ...

Sajid Hussain

Ali Haider: the trolley boy gets to join his missing father

The once-famous 11-year-old boy carrying a single-wheel trolley during the historic Long March to find his missing father is now a 16-year-old young man – an age which makes him almost eligible to go missing himself. And he did. On Sunday. Ali Haider –the remarkably poised boy usually wearing an intense look and a flat ...

Asma Akhtar

A digital painting by Saeeda Bibi

Banadi Shehak: the first Baloch woman to lead a battle

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 ...

Maryam Khanzai

Is identity crisis a disease?

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 ...

Yaseen Ghani

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A risky new world

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 ...