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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This article, written by novelist and journalist Mohammed Hanif in Urdu, was published on BBC Urdu on November 10, 2016. Translation of Hanif’s nuanced and subtle writings is no easy job. The translator accepts responsibility for the numerous shortcomings that you might find in the English version. When certificates for traitors, enemies of the country and ...
This short short story by A R Daad has been translated by Jalil Baloch from Balochi. At the back of the door, on a wall, the old man had written the date and month of his arrival. “I am the youngest son of Saalaar. The day I came here there was no sign of ...
