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Lateef Johar

راہءُ سفر دیم پہ آوارانءَ

“گاماں کمو تیزتر کن، روچ دراہگ ءَ پیش ہرچی گیش دیمترا روگ بیت رواں۔ پدا گرم بیت ما سفر کرت نکناں”۔ ما کہ گسانی نزیکءِ رودرتکءِ کسانیں ڈن گوازینت ءُ کڈّءَ ایر کپتاں، ناکو بوروءَ منی نیمگا چارت ءُ گشت۔ کَڈءَرا اینچو باز کرک مان نیست ات۔ چگرد، کُنرءُ کلیڑ گیشتر اَتنت بلے  میتگءِ نام ...

Shah Meer Baloch

سیاسی دیوان: زبیده جلال

چه بلوچستان ٹائمز ءِ نیمگا شاہمیر بلوچ چہ پاکستان ءِ وزیر زبیدہ جلال ءَ بلوچستان ءِ سیاسی ءُ انسانی جاورانی بارہ ءَ تران کنت۔ بلوچستان ریڈیو ءِ پروگرام سیاسی دیوان ءِ تہا شاہمیر بلوچ گون سیاسی سروکان ہبر ءُ ہال کنت۔    

Sameer Mehrab

The Shepherd, The Greek and The Colonel

Disclaimer:  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.   The Shepherd (i) It all started one dreadful afternoon when The Shepherd ...

Fazal Baloch

The Doomsday

This Balochi short story by Ghaus Bahar, who passed away last week, has been translated by Fazal Baloch.    It is midday. The sun is scorching hot overhead. From tiny ants and birds to giant leopards and elephants, everyone is writhing in unbearable heat. As far as one could see, the whole world looks like ...

Shah Meer Baloch

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سیاسی دیوان: حاصل بزنجو

 بلوچستان ٹائمز ریڈیو ءِ پروگرام سیاسی دیوان ءِ تھا  اھوالکار شاھمیر بلوچ گون بلوچ ساستدانان بلوچستان ءِ ھستیں و گوستگیں جاورھالانی سرا تران کنت۔ اولی پروگرام  ءِ مھمان انت نیشنل پارٹی ءِ سروک حاصل بزنجو۔

Yousuf Murad Baloch

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Caught in conflict: the Baloch women

On the outskirts of Quetta, just at the foothill of the Chiltan Mountain range, is a small town comprising over 10,000 people. The town was established by the internally displaced refugees from Balochistan’s Kahan town who had been forced to flee their ancestral land in the 1970s during the conflict between Pakistan military and Baloch ...

News Desk

Mass grave containing four bodies found in Balochistan

A mass grave was found in Balochistan’s Panjgur district on 17 July, 2018, containing four bodies decomposed beyond recognition. Relatives of missing persons, a term used for victims of enforced disappearances in Balochistan, flocked to the site of the mass grave fearing the bodies might belong to their loved ones. However, there was no way ...

Lateef Johar

میتگ چون یل دات– دومی بهر

اے روچ ءَ من گوں جنک ءُ بچکاں دار ءُ پیش ءَ نَشُتاں۔ من وتی ءُ تُرو آمنہ ءِ، ناکو بُورُو لوگ بانک ءِ، گِس ءُ گوکانی واڑءِ کرّا گَشت ءُ گوازی کرت بلے دلگوش گوں ناکو بورو اَت کہ گوکانی کاہ ءُ بُوچ ءَ کئیت، من پدا گُشان ئِے۔ روچ در اتک ءُ درنگ ...

Tears of Sindhu: exploring Sindh’s political history

The new book Tears of Sindhu: Sindhi national struggle in historical context explores Sindh’s political history with a scholarly view. Authored by Dr Naseer Dashti, a prolific Baloch scholar, this new release is one of the most interesting books on the history of Sindh. Authors and writers belonging to power corridors that subjugated Sindhis for ...

Haji Naseer

Tales from the dungeon: Haji Naseer

In the Tales from the Dungeon series of Balochistan Times, former victims of enforced disappearance recount their ordeal. Haji Naseer was one of the first political activists to be whisked away by Pakistan military from Balochistan in 2004. He now lives in Germany as a refugee.   My name is Haji Naseer, and I am ...