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Relatives of missing persons denied space by Karachi, Quetta press clubs

A Baloch human rights group has claimed that officials of Karachi and Quetta press clubs refused to give space to the relatives of missing persons for press conference. The Baloch Human Rights Organization (BHRO), a group helping the relatives of missing persons highlight their cases, said in a press release that the press club officials ...

Zaffar Baloch

Lahoot e La Makaan

Lahoot La’makaan

All places holy Remind me How lonely I am How lonely I’ve been All these years, For millenniums. Out of me, Grew temples and tombs, The weeds of my soul. Now taller than me, Blocking the sun. My existence is a pilgrimage, From nowhere to nowhere.   * Lahoot La’makaan is a holy shrine in ...

Dr Horo Murad

ہانی ملُور اِنت

ہانی سَک ملور اِنت ہانی سک گمیگ اِنت کہ ارواہءِ تہا چیریں واہشاں سرپد نہ بیت کَسے اَرس ہما کہ زردءِ زِرءَ چول جننت بلے دیدوکاں سر نہ بنت درد ہما کہ سوچَنت باتنءَ نہ ماریت اِش کَسے ہانی گُشیت تو شیہہءِ کِسّہاں چیا کنئے شیہہءَ مزنیں عاشقے پرچہ گُشئے من چیزے نیاں بَکشایَگی دروگیں ...

Seth Halir

نُہہ سالی آفتاب ءِ مات ءُ آئی ءِ پِشّی پرائی ءَ وداریگ اَنت

تاج بلوچ ءِ انگریزی نبشانتکے کہ سیٹھ ہلیر ءَ رجانک کتگ۔ آفتاب وتی حقّی ئیں مات ءَ نزانت۔ آ چِل روچ ءِ چُک بیت کہ آئی ءِ مات جمالاتون چہ زردوئی ءِ بیماری ءَ بیران بیت۔ مات ءِ بیرانی ءَ پَد آئی ءَ ترُو، بزاں آئی ءِ پِت ءِ گْوہار صابرہ رودینیت۔ آفتاب ءِ دِل ...

Taj Baloch

Nine-year-old Aftab’s mother and cat await his release

Nine-year-old Aftab might have heard of the conflict in Balochistan, but he is too young to understand any of it. That did not stop him from becoming a victim of this simmering conflict. He was picked up by the Sindh Rangers and personnel of Pakistan’s intelligence agencies from a Karachi apartment on 28th of October ...

Mureed Baloch

Stay put Time

Stay put Time Thee move too much! Sometimes I wonder what is time made of When I was a child everyone said time never waits I always wondered why won’t it wait When I grew more Time kept ageing But never grew old I have never met Time But all this time, I’ve had a ...

Taj Baloch

Nawaz Atta – the poet-cum-social activist

Nawaz Atta was an aspiring poet who helped the family members of Baloch missing persons, and then he himself went missing. Born in 1995 in the small town of Gichk in district Panjgur of Balochistan, he had long dreamt of becoming a poet and a fiction writer. Therefore, after completing his primary education from his ...

A brief history of humankind

The march of history is long and mysterious in many ways. In the last 150,000 years, our species has evolved much from an ape-like tree-dwelling mammals of genus homo. There are a number of theories about what make us human, or superior to other animals in terms of our impact on the ecological system, or ...

Sajid Hussain

وتگلا پیماز ءِ بو ءَ کنت

بلوچ ءِ گیرت یک رندے پدا پاد اتکہ۔ پدا بَٹاک ءُ وتگلاہی ءِ نہ کُٹّوکین سلسلہ یے بِنا انت۔ جنین مئے ننگ انت، مئے دژمن دروگ بندیں لگوریے ءُ ما راست گش ءُ دلیریں، ما پہ لب ءُ ملاماں بہا نہ بئیں، زور ءِ دیم ءَ پد نہ کنزیں، چاکر ءِ اوالادیں گوہرام ءِ دل ...

Sameer Mehrab

The day we left

The day we left We left a full moon behind On a pitch-black sky Highlighting the farthest stars and the whole Milky Way and beyond Sprinkled over the wildness of darkness like snow   The day we left We left few more things behind The remains of an old fort Been there since the beginning ...