Madiea Ghafoor is being touted as the first Baloch woman taking part at the Rio Olympics 2016. Born and raised in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the 23-year-old is the granddaughter of famous Baloch politician and activist from Lyari, Lala Lal Bakhsh Rind. She will be representing Netherlands in the 4×400 relay in the games. Talking to a ...
This poem, was e bewasi, by Atta Shad has been translated from Balochi by Fazal Baloch. God, O God! Where is that world? That heaven and the earth? Where is the dark dawn that should lead to daylight? Those flower-studded stars, the bright moon? Where is that inner tipsy ambience? The pleasant landscape of pleasing hearts? ...
“Barr e Kaheer has been set on fire,” a neighbor broke into our house, sweating from head to toe, to inform my mother. The guy who brought the news had been long gone. Yet, my mom stood static like a statue with a look I had never seen on her face. It made me confused. ...
من 2013 ءَ کسانیں نبشتانکے شنگ کتگہ کہ اگں ترا شعرے ساڑایگی انت بگش اے شعر بلوچی تب ءِ نمائندہیں شعرے ۔اگں آزمانکے گلایگی انت بگش اے کسہ ءِ تہا ’’کارستانی نفسیات چٹ بلوچی‘‘ انت۔ اگں شاعرے یا آزمانکارے وتی شعر یا کسہانی تہا بتلی زبان کارمرز مہ کنت بزان آ چہ دری زباناں اثرمند انت ...
Currently, I supervise ten trailer trucks in Uganda, the Pearl of Africa. But five years back, I was a journalist with a promising future. I led a team of over 50 reporters, sub-editors and other non-editorial staff at The News International, a newspaper that touts itself to be Pakistan’s largest circulated English daily. I was rigorously ...
دور سَک دور چهرگێن دئورانی وابان سَکَّ بنت اهدئے ودارانی چَم بارێن کدی دۆرانی باری مَٹَّ بنت؟ اے زندگی، اے یَکّ و تهناێن سپر هر دو سئواسان سِستگێن گُکّ بَستگێن پادینکێا گرّان اِنت جاهے رۆچێا جاهے شپا بڈّا کُتگ۔۔۔ جاهے شُدا واپێنتگ و شَر ٹَپِّتگ تان اندگه سهبئے سرا چمانی سیاهی آرگی سُرمگ کتگ ...
On the sunny afternoon of July 26, 2016, a group of armed masked men stopped a passenger bus at a Pakistan army check post, near Gadap Town, in the northwestern part of Karachi, forming the provincial border of Sindh and Balochistan. The masked men ordered all the passengers to show their identity cards. After enquiring ...
اے نبشتانک ساجد حسین ءَ انگریزی ءَ لِکّتگ۔ حمّل حیدرءَ بلوچی ءَ ترّینتگ۔ منا باور نہ بیت کہ آئی ءَ اینچو کتاب کہ بہا زرتگ، درْست ونتگ اَنت۔ درزنانی حساب ءَ آئی ءَ کتاب زرتگ۔ ماہے یک رندے ناں، کساس ہمو ہپتگ۔ “کافکا ءِ آزمانکانی اردو کتاب کجا رَسیت؟” آئی ءَ منا اردو بازار ءِ انچیں ...
I would never be able to believe that he read all the books he bought. He bought them in dozens. Not once in a month. Almost every week. “Where can I find Kafka’s collection of short stories in Urdu?” And he would guide me to a bookshop in Karachi’s Urdu Bazar that the Google Maps ...
منیر مۆمن چه هما کمّێن شائران اِنت که وتی زندا په وت رندگیرانی رُمبے جۆڑی کرتگ. مرۆچی گێشترێن شائری منیرئے دابا پِر بندگ بئیگا اِنت. لهتێنَ گوَشیت که مارا پهر بندگَ لۆٹیت که ما مُنیرئے اهدا زندگ اێن. ناگمانا بلۆچیئے مسترێن شائر گوشتگ، چه اَتا شادا هم هما دێم. بله دومی نێمگا، باز وانۆک و لهتێن ...
Sameer Mehrab
Javed Baloch
Javed Baloch