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 ہما اہوالکار کہ وردیانی ٹھیکہ دار جوڑ بوت

اے نبشتانک ساجد حسین ءُ تاج بلوچ ءَ چہ نامداریں ناول نویس ءُ اہوالکار محمد حنیف ءِ انگریزی کتابے ءَ رجانک کُتگ۔ کتاب ءِ اے دگہ بہر یک یک ءَ بلوچستان ٹائمز ءَ شِنگ کَنگ بنت۔  محمد بلال مینگل نوشکی ءَ بے مُزّ ءَ کارکنوکیں اہوالکارے۔ آ، آزادی نامیں ہالتاکے ءِ رپورٹرے کہ چہ کوئٹہ، ...

Balochistan: Political awakening

Recently, Brahumdagh Bugti, the leader of the Baloch Republican Party (BRP), through a tweet, subscribed to the Pakistani version of the events of March 27th 1948, which Baloch observe as a black day as Balochistan was illegally annexed to Pakistan. He said it was only Kalat and not Balochistan that was annexed and then in ...

Bibi Mahdim Baluch

A lesson from Baloch history

The leader of the Baloch Republican Party (BRP) has issued statements in serious breach of the Baloch nationalist narrative and presented the world at large with an inaccurate understanding of Baloch history. Balochistan had been a loosely knit tribal confederacy for centuries with major political activity and discussion being centered in and around Kalat or ...

News Desk

An academic history of Balochistan’s ‘accession’ with Pakistan

Brahumdagh Bugti’s refusal to accept March 27 as the day of occupation of Balochistan by Pakistan has opened a pandora’s box with nationalist leaders across the board asking the Baloch Republican Party leader to take back his statement. In all this noise, however, historical facts are being ignored. Neither Brahumdagh nor his critics are offering ...

News Desk

Quddus Bizenjo to launch new party today

Chief Minister Balochistan Quddus Bizenjo has said that he will announce the formation of a new political party in a press conference today (Thursday). Geo News reported that 32 other members of the Balochistan Assembly will be part of the new party. Bizenjo, who secured only 544 votes in a constituency of 57,666 voters in ...

News Desk

Brahumdagh takes major shift from Baloch nationalist narrative

President of the Baloch Republican Party Brahumdagh Bugti on Tuesday took a major shift from the mainstream Baloch nationalist narrative by denying that Pakistan occupied Balochistan on March 27, 1948. Brahumdagh has been on the forefront of the ongoing Baloch separatist movement that seeks its justification from the alleged March 27 occupation. “On March 27th ...

Razzak Sarbazi

کرزگ

منی میتگءَ سیر لاپ ءُ زنڈیں کُچک باز اِنت۔ چونیں چونیں کُچک انت۔ یکے ءِ گوش مزن انت، یکے ءِ پُٹ انچش انت گُشئیگا گوَرانڈے۔ یک انچیں ھڈ کشتگیں مزن بالادیں کُچکے ہم من یک روچے بازار ءَ دیست کہ بالاد ئےِ اسپیگ ءُ دیم ئےِ کُچکیگے ات۔ منی ہمساہگ دو پیریں مرد ءُ جن ...

Mureed Baloch

The true story of slaughtering a mid-aged hen

“But why are you so scared of birds, cousin? They’re cute. And delicious. I slaughtered this one before you guys arrive,” she said in a shyly proud tone while splitting the boiled hen in portions to serve her polio-ridden brother. “That’s really brave of you,” I replied. For some odd reason in life, birds have ...

Sameer Mehrab

A photo by an unknown artist about power politics.

The role of law in Baloch-Pakistan conflict

Why ask the Baloch to follow Pakistan’s constitution, when the state itself disregards its laws in punishing the Baloch for not following Pakistan’s constitution? The constitution is a social contract between the state and its citizens to govern and to be governed under a set of agreed-upon laws. The Baloch people had no role in ...

Dr Naseem Baloch

Photo by Haneef Shareef

Tales from the Dungeon: Dr Naseem Baloch (Part II)

In the Tales from the Dungeon series of Balochistan Times, former victims of enforced disappearance recount their ordeal. Dr Naseem Baloch was forcibly disappeared twice. He was first whisked away by security forces in 2005 along with Dr Imdad Baloch, Dr Allah Nizar, Dr Yousuf Murad, Ghulam Rasool, Akhtar Nadeem and Ali Nawaz Gohar, all ...