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Yousuf Murad Baloch

Tales from the dungeon: Dr Yousuf Murad Baloch (Part I)

This is first part of Balochistan Time’s Tales from the dungeon series in which former victims of enforced disappearances tell their ordeal. Dr Yousuf Murad Baloch was among the first victims. He was taken away from Karachi in March 2005 along with other members of the Baloch Students Organization (BSO). He now lives in Germany.   ...

Farah Naz Baloch

Diverse people

Cultural discrimination at education institutions

One of the main issues that is affecting the social, political, economic, geographical and educational career of learners is cultural discrimination. Cultural discrimination has been often identified as a barrier that affects the treatment and ultimately the success of learners in educational institutions. Culture discrimination results from social stereotyping and leads to poor communication and ...

Farzana Majeed, 27, poses for a portrait holding a photograph of her brother Zakir. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

گہارےءِ بے وابی

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۔   فرزانہ مجیدءَ چہ بلوچستان یونیورسٹیءَ بائیوکیمسٹریءِ تہا ماسٹرز کتگءُ نوں ایم فل ...

Zaffar Baloch

The struggle for Balochistan’s independence: what went wrong?

What followed the 1948 invasion of the sovereign state of Balochistan by the Pakistani military was an armed revolt led by Prince Agha Abdul Karim, younger brother of the ruler of Kalat, Mir Ahmedyar Khan. The revolt ended in defeat. Early Reminiscences of a Soldier, published in the daily Dawn (August 14, 1960), authored by ...

Sajid Hussain

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Carina Jahani: The Swedish linguist on a quest to save Balochi

In November last year, a Swedish woman stood in front of a dominantly Swedish audience in Stockholm urging them to vote in favour of a presentation about a ‘dying language’ they had probably never heard of. She is Carina Jahani, a professor of Iranian languages at the Uppsala University. She was taking part in a ...

Zahid Abdulla

یورپا سیاسی، مالی و پئوجی تاکتئے رُدۆم

شانزدُهمی سَدیئے بنداتا کسی وهم و گُمانا نبوتگ که یک رۆچے یورپ چه وابا بُست کنت و انچێن مزنێن سیاسی، پئوجی و ماشی تاکتے جوڑ بیت که سرجمێن دُنیایا وتی زێردست کنت۔ آ زَمانگا یورپ هر هسابا چه اے دگه دُنیایا سَک پُشتا بوتگ۔ شانزدَهمی سَدیا ایشیایی مُلکان دُنیائے سرا راج کُتگ۔ چه آ زمانگئے ...

Salman Saleem

گُلیءِ چُک گوں پری آں مَٹ بوتگ

من کسان اتاں کہ منی ماتءَ منا بَڈّءَ کت ءُ بُرت گوں گُلیءِ چارگءَ۔ گُلی نوک نوکءَ کپتگ اَتءُ آئیءِ اولی زہگ بچکے اَت۔  گُلیءِ کپگءَ نوں یک ہپتگے گوستگ اَت، بلے اے کپگ چہ اے دگہ کپگاں جدا اَت۔ گلیءِ چکء پوست اِسپیت اِسپیت اَت، بُروان، مودءُ مچاچ دراہ اسپیت اتنت۔ گونڈلءِ چم سُہر ...

Taj Baloch

Missing: Jam Wahag

He called himself Jam Wahag. His real name was Jan Mohammad, but he did not like to be called by this name. Jan Mohammad Allah Dad, a resident of Bit Buleda district Kech, Balochistan, was forcibly disappeared on March 13, 2013. He is missing since then. In 2005, Ghulam Muhammad Baloch, the founding President of ...

Sameer Mehrab

In the loving memory of uncle Noor Ahmad

Karima called me while on her way to the Pearson airport, Toronto. She was heading to Montreal for the hearing of her asylum case which had been delayed for two years. She told me she had received a call from our younger sister back home that there were unconfirmed reports about the discovery of a ...

Nodan Baloch

Lala Noor Ahmad: the silent martyr

When I was the Senior Joint Secretary of the Baloch Students Organization-Hai (BSO-Hai), I had to visit the Makran region for an organizational tour. I first travelled from Quetta to Turbat on a passenger coach where I called a meeting of the Senior Body of the BSO at the Turbat college hostel. My second stop ...