“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
ہست ات بادشاہے۔ بادشاہ ہدا وندء تالا وت انت۔ بلے اے سرزمین ءِ بادشاہ ات، بادشاہ گریب پرور ءُ مسکیں نوازے ات۔ بادشاہ ءِ گریب دوستی ءِ نام ءُ توار کُلیں جہان ءَ پرشتگ ات، ہر ہلک ءُ دیارءَ ہمے بادشاہ ءِ توسیپ ءُ سپت ات، مجلس ءُ دیواناں، میتگ ءُ بازاراں، دہکان ءُ مزدرو، ...
I do not want to be seen as someone throwing a monkey wrench into the works and undermining the move towards a prospective Baloch-Pashtun unity but there are certain things which all those advocating and proposing this unity should understand and keep in view. I for one would be the happiest if this much-wanted unity ...
اے نبشتانک چہ نامداریں اہوالکار ءُ ناول نویس محمد حنیف ءِ انگریزی کتاب ءَ تاج بلوچ ءُ ساجد حسین ءَ رجانک کُتگ۔ اے کتاب بیگواہیں بلوچانی سرا انت۔ اشی ءِ پش کپتگیں بہر یک یک ءَ بلوچستان ٹائمز ءَ شنگ کنگ بنت۔ چہ سریاب روڑ کوئٹہ ءَ بیگواہ بوگا شش سال رند پولیس ءَ حافظ ...
By Aslan Ahmed Aslan Ahmed, a school-going child from Canada, has responded to Balochistan Times’ call for original short stories written by children under 17. Enjoy his first story. Chapter 1 Imagine this. You are falling from a plane six miles in the air. Your airplane chair and a bag of pretzels are all ...
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 ...
Bangladesh comprised of the eastern regions of a divided Bengal. In the schema of dividing India and creating Pakistan on religious grounds, this part of Bengal was incorporated in to Pakistan and, for a while, it was known as East Pakistan. After a bloody civil war, with the help of Indian forces, East Pakistan became ...
In the middle of the night of October 28, 2017, I received a call from one of my colleagues in the Baloch Human Rights Organization (BHRO), a group working to highlight human rights abuses in Balochistan. It was unusual to receive a call from Pakistan directly on my mobile phone. Our colleagues there would usually ...
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