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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 ...

Seth Halir

مُزواک

اے محمد حنیف ءِ اردو نبشتانک ”مزواک ہولڈر“ ءِ رجانک انت۔   اے چارمی سال انت کہ کراچیءَ کتابانی میاں استمانی مراگش بُوّگا اِنت۔ ہمک سال پاکستانءُ چہ دنیاءِ اے دگہ مُلکاں کتاب شنگکار اِدا کاینتءُ وتی چاپ کُتگیں کتاباں بہا کننت۔ گوستگیں سالءَ منی دلءَ گشت کہ من ہم سرے بِجَناں۔ ملکی جاورانی نگیگیءَ بازیں ...

Yaseen Ghani

Qambar Chakar: a revolutionary, a friend

Change has been a constant driving force in the human history and evolution. Sometimes this change is forced by nature and we submit to it and it is called adaption, and sometimes this change is driven by us to alter the status quo and it is called revolution. The latter is a fuzzy word or ...

Sameer Mehrab

Here I am

Saddened but not broken Shackled but not hindered   I fell from your blows, Harsh and continuous, I fell but not subdued My gaze still upwards Aspiring for the sun   I heard one of us fell today Darkness consumed another son of light To stop what has been heralded, For quite sometime   A ...

Sajid Hussain

Noor Ahmad: The Master, The Uncle is no more

He was devastated after coming across the Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of a starving Sudanese child and a vulture waiting in the background to feed on her body in case she died. “With all the riches of the world, with all the power the mankind has achieved, how come we fail to feed this child?” ...