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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
سائنداد ءُ پُلان ءَ ابید دگہ چُشیں مردمے نیست اَت کہ پرائمری پاس کنگا پد دگہ ہند ءُ دمگاں پہ دیمتری وانگ ءَ شتگ اَت۔ دگہ دمگاں پمشکا روگی ات کہ میتگ ءَ اسکول تہنا پرائمری اَت، پنچ پاس کنگا پد مڈل یا ہائی اسکول ءَ وانگ ءِ واستا ہما میتگاں روگ المی ات کہ ...
Dozens of Baloch from across Sweden flocked to Stockholm on Saturday to celebrate the Baloch culture with dance performances, singing, exhibition of traditional artefacts, and children tableaus. The event, initially planned to be held on March 2 to correspond with the Baloch Culture Day, is the first of its kind in Europe. “It’s going to ...
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Sameer Mehrab
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