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 ...
برپ گوارگا اِنت۔ مروچی، گشئیگا بسّ نکنت۔ لوٹئے کدَم جنان، اسٹیشنے نیمگا برویں؟۔ کافی، اودا ترندین رسیت۔ آرامیں کافی شاپے، یورپی زندءِ پئیمیں تہاری مان شانوکیں رژنائیءَ، میوزکءِ توارءَ سر چنڈینین و چہ شیشگی دریگان برپ جتگیں ریلانی سیلءَ کنیں۔ زیک ترا سیاستءِ سرا ونتُن۔ وشیں احساسے پیدا بوت۔ مُلکانی پونز و نکشہاں جوڑ کنوکیں ...
عطا شادئے بیست و دومی سالرۆچئے درگتا تاج بلۆچا آییئے دو لچه په بلۆچستانٹائمزئے وانۆکان رِکارڑ کرتگ
This short story by Munir Momin has been translated from Balochi by Hoorain Mahrang. No one could tell this corpse belonged to an insane man. I had not seen such a beautiful corpse in my life. I fancied that Dalarm had led his whole life for the purpose that his dead body looked so ravishing. ...
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