Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) leader Manzoor Pashteen was blocked by security officials on Monday when he reached the Quetta airport to visit the protest camp of families of Baloch missing persons. FIA officials stopped the PTM leader at the airport and forced him to return on the next flight. Pashteen had arrived in the city ...
The death toll in the Turbat gas cylinder blast tragedy has climbed to 15, as another child, Ayaz, succumbed to his injuries on Thursday. On November 28th, a mini-bus carrying schoolchildren and teachers back to their homes made a stopover at a local snack stall in front of Park Hotel in the city of Turbat. ...
The collapsing Pakistani economy is not only worrying for its patrons and lenders but minorities like the Baloch and Sindhis are increasingly expressing their concerns about its political and social implications on these two nations. Pakistan: the changing allies? As a client state, since its existence, Pakistan has been rescued by the US and its ...
The recent momentum in the case of missing persons has rightly caused a stir among political and social circles within and outside Balochistan. It started after the participants of a peaceful really led by missing student leader Shabir Baloch’s family, among others, were manhandled by police in Quetta to stop them from visiting Chief Minister’s ...
(منی امّاں، بی بی آمنہ ءِ نامءَ) بلوچی دوچ الّم چہ یک سادگیں شولےءَ بندات بوتگ۔ انچو کہ انسانی تاریخءَ بنیادی پکاریں چیزانی تہا یکے الّم ہمے شول بوتگ، وہدے انسانءَ پہ وتا پوشاک اَڈّ کُتگ۔ اشیءِ سوب لجءُ میار بوتگ یا وتا چہ موسماں رکّینگ، بلے شول الّم ہما اولی دوچ بوتگ کہ انسانءَ ...
اے چارلس ڈکنزءِ کسّہے کہ سیٹھ ھلیرءَ چہ انگریزیءَ ترّینتگ۔ ہست اَت گونڈوے۔ گونڈوءَ ہَست اَت گوَنڈکیں گوہارے۔ دوئیں براتءُ گوہار ہداءِ کُدرتاں ہیران اَتنت۔ برے پُلّانی رَنگءُ برنگیءَ ہیران، برے آزمانءِ سبزیءَ ہیران، دریاءِ جُہلیءَ ہیران، ہداءِ شَرّیءَ ہیران، ہداءِ طاقتءَ ہیران۔ ہیران کہ مہربانیں ہداءَ چونیں جلوَہ ناکیں دنیایے سازِتگ۔ سجَّہیں روچءَ ...
Bordering Iran to the west, Afghanistan to the north and laying at the Strait of Hormuz to the south, Balochistan is generally known for its strategic importance, prodigious riches, an ongoing nationalist insurgency, and human rights challenges. Underneath this lies a systematic and diabolic subversion triggered by the military establishment of Pakistan which, as a ...
As I walked along with my grandfather towards Kaanti at the start of the blistering summer month of June in 1998, little did I know this would be my last trip to the place of my nostalgia. Kaanti, an oasis of extensive and dense groves of date palm trees, was nestled in the midst of ...
This is Fareed Baloch’s year long journey on foot from Balochistan to Germany. It was around three in the morning when the agents hurriedly woke us up. “Move, move, move it! Let’s go. Now is the time,” one said, as they shepherd us. We were exhausted after already failing an attempt to cross the ...
Balochistan Times’ Shah Meer Baloch lately talked to Zubaida Jalal, Pakistan’s Federal Miniser for Defense Production, about her past and future politics. Some of the edited excerpts of this conversation are as follows: Shah Meer Baloch: We have had two Zubaida Jalals. One who called herself a revolutionary wanting to change the fate of ...
Hazaran Rahim Dad
Banari Mengal