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 ...
“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 ...
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۔
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 ...
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 ...
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۔
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
