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Fazal Baloch

Why does the moon look so beautiful?

This story about a man who doesn’t know how to laugh is originally penned down by Naguman. Fazal Baloch has translated it from Balochi for our readers.   On the very day of our first wedding anniversary, my wife gave birth to a baby boy. Thus we named him Saalaan*. Days passed by and Saalaan ...

Sajid Hussain

Akbar Bugti: A man who lived and died as he wished

It’s the first-ever comprehensive profile of prominent Baloch leader, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, written by Sajid Hussain. We appreciate if his family members and supporters point out factual mistakes or provide us with additional information.   Despite his scandalous politics, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti is the most talked-about person in Baloch society. With his twirling moustache, ...

Sajid Hussain

Ghulam Mohammad Baloch: Life and politics

Ghulam Mohammed Baloch was one of the most influential nationalist leaders in the contemporary Baloch politics. His political career spanned from 1974 when he was still in school till April 2009 when he was picked up by Pakistan’s paramilitary Frontier Corps personnel and eventually assassinated. In his 35-year political career, he always remained a staunch ...

Fazal Baloch

Gul Khan Naseer: Revolutionary Baloch poet

Born in 1914, at Nushki, Balochistan, Gul Khan made his first appearance in the realm of literature in the early 1940s during the heyday of the Progressive Movement. He was among the few progressive Balochi writers who stayed committed with the ideology of the movement till their last breath. Initially, he used Urdu as the ...

News Desk

Sayad Zahoor Shah Hashmi: A one-man institution

Author: Abbas Jalbani Balochi literature is very rich in oral tradition but comparatively poor in the printed text. It was only in the early twentieth century that Balochi began to be transcribed in books. Under such trying conditions, it wasn’t easy for anyone to devote his entire life to the promotion of Balochi literature. Sayad ...

Sajid Hussain

Atta Shad: the architect of modern Balochi poetry

Atta Shad is considered the architect of modern symbolic Balochi poetry. Born in 1939 in Singanisar, a small village in Balochistan’s border district of Turbat, he was named by his parents as Mohammed Ishaq. However, there was another student of the same in his class, and his teacher changed his name to Atta Mohammed in ...

Taj Baloch

چیئرمین گُلام محمد: چیزے ترانگ ۔۔۔ ہپتُمی بہر

 تاج بلوچ گوں چئیرمین ءَ گوازینتگیں وہد ءِ ترْانگاں نبشتہ کنگ انت۔ چوں کہ ہپتمی بہر دیر ءَ رند شِنگ بوگ ءَ انت شما کسّہ روانی سرپد بوگ ءِ واستا  ششمی بہر ءَ ادا ونت کن اِت۔ لہتے سنگت شُت بازارءَ پہ جلسہ ءِ جارءِ جنگ ءَ کہ مرچی بیگہہءَ، دپترءِ دپءَ بی این ایمءِ جلسہ ...

Zahid Abdulla

the palace museum with sunset glow in beijing,China

جہاندپتر: کوْہنیں چین

ما ہو جان انچو کہ ما وتی پیسیریگیں نمدیانی تہا گُشتگ ات کہ دُنیا ءِ مزنیں تہذیب کورانی دامن ءَ رُستگ ءُ مزن بوتگ انت ءُ پدا زوال ءِ نیمگ ءَ شتگ انت۔ چینی تہذیب ءِ کسہ ہم انچوش انت۔ چین ءِ زمین ءَ سئے مزنیں کور است۔ اشانی تہا یکے زردکور، دوئمی یانگزی ءُ سیمی ...

Sajid Hussain

ملک سراج ءَ گوں ٹرمپ ءِ پاکستان ءُ بلوچ پالیسی ءِ سر ءَ اہوال

اے پروگرام ءِ تہا ما گوں امریکہ ءَ جہمنندیں بلوچ اہوالکار ملک سراج اکبر ءَ جُست کتگ کہ ڈونلڈ ٹرمپ ءِ آیگ ءَ پد پاکستان ءُ بلوچ سیاست ءِ سر ءَ چے اثر   کپیت۔ ما پہلی لوٹیں کہ جاگہ جاگہے ءَ ریکارڑینگ ءِ ہرابی ءِ وجہ ءَ  لہتیں سوال ءُ آہانی جواب پروگرام ءِ مان ...

Waleed Lal Baloch

میان رودراتک ٹرمپ ءِ نوکیں پالیسانی وداریگ

اِے نبشتانک  10 نومبر 2016 ءَ بی بی سی اردو ءَ شنگ بیتگ۔ امریکہ ءِ سروک گچین بوگ ءَ رند میان رودراتک (مشرقِ وسطٰی) ءِ بازیں رہشوناں ڈونلڈ ٹرمپ ءَ را مبارک بات داتگ بلے بازیں مُلکانی سروک وداریگ اَنت کہ اے دَمگ ءِ تہا امریکہ ءِ کوْہنیں پالیسیانی تہا چے بدلی کئیت؟ بی بی ...