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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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?” ...
نوزدہ دسمبر دوہزارہبدہءَ من بلوچستان پیپلز پارٹیءِ سنٹرل کمیٹیءِ ممبر واجہ محمد علیءَ ریڈیو بلوچستانءِ واستا انٹرویو کنگا اتاں، گڑا پوہ بوتاں کہ واجہ محمد علی، سی سال اِنت کہ سربازءَ نہ شُتہ۔ وتی سرزمینءَ شُت نہ کنت۔ تہنا واجہ محمد علی نہ اِنت۔ مغربی بلوچستانءِ دگہ سک باز مردُم است کہ یورپءُ نارتھ امریکہءَ ...
Sherbaz Mazari had been refusing offers for interviews from television channels and top journalists. But when I and my friend, Hakeem Baloch, left him a message that we were two young Baloch and wanted to understand our recent political history, he agreed. As we sat in his two-storied library, the octogenarian Baloch politician from Dera ...
روبرکتی مُلکاں گیشتریں مردم ہر نوکیں سالءِ آہگءَ پیسر نیّت کننت کہ کجام کار کنگی اِنتءُ کجام کنگی نہ اِنت۔ ہما کارانی کنگ ءِ ارادہءَ کننت کہ آہانی لوٹاں پیلو بکنت۔ ارادہ تُری وانگءِ بہ بیت، کارےءِ شوہازءِ، بازیں زرّے کمائینگءِ، کسےءِ مدتءُ کمکءِ، مذہبیءُ سیاسی بہ بنت، ہرمردم وتی دیم ءِ نپءُ فائدہ یا ...
In a surprise twist of political power game ahead of general elections, Nawabzada Lashkari Raisani joined the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) on Sunday. Lashkari Raisani is the younger brother of former chief minister Balochistan Aslam Raisani. He has also served as the the former Balochistan chief of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). In 2013, he ...
This article is in response to Nodan Baloch’s opinion piece, War Profiteers of Balochistan, published in Balochistan Times on December 24, 2017. Although I agree with Nodan Baloch that all wars attract profiteers and there are people who have benefited or tried to benefit from the conflict in Balochistan, I strongly disagree with some of ...
I first heard the term ‘war profiteer’ when I was in the fourth class. Our teacher would use it in the context of Afghanistan insurgents and Pakistani generals after Afghanistan lost its buffer zone status in the aftermath of the interference of former Soviet Union during the regime of Hafizullah Amin. Pakistani generals like Akhtar ...
Hazaran Rahim Dad
Banari Mengal