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Abdullah Abbas

Persecution of Baloch women is nothing new

Last Sunday, the Counter-Terrorism Department picked up a woman in district Kech and claimed she was planning to carry out a suicide attack on Chinese nationals. The contents of the FIR against the 40-year-old Noor Jan could not have been more fictional. The CTD is known to register fake cases. An M.Phil student, Abdul Hafeez, ...

Hartál

Delgósh: Sájeday é ázmánk mahták Sechkáná Janwari 2011á cháp o sheng butag. É panchomi rand at ke mobáel pawnay ganthiá á cha wábá pád kort. Bale inchok tahmboli nabut ke pawná chest bekant o bechárit ke kay ent. Tán shapay nehengámá akhbáray daptará kár kanagá rand wahdé lógá átk o wapt, tán domi róchay bégáhá ...

هَرتال

دِلگۆش: ساجدئے اے آزمانک مهتاک سِچکانا جنوَری 2011 آ چاپ و شِنگ بوتگ. اے پنچُمی رند اَت که مُبائل پئونئے گَنٹیا آ چه وابا پاد کُرت. بله اینچُک تَهمبُلی نبوت که پئونا چست بکنت و بچاریت که کئے اِنت. تان شپئے نِهنگاما اخبارئے دپترا کار کنگا رند وهدے لۆگا آتک و وپت، تان دومی رۆچئے ...

Riaz Baloch

Zahid Baloch: Eight years of enforced disappearance

It has been eight years since Zahid Baloch was abducted by Pakistan’s secret agencies on March 18, 2014, from Quetta. Zahid Baloch was abducted along with Assad Baloch, a student and resident of Tump, in the presence of Banuk Karima Baloch and other eyewitnesses. He was the chairman of Baloch Students Organization-Azad, the largest and ...

Ehsan Haider

Yukrén o Rusay jérhah: Kasánén chamshánké

24 Parwariay sohbá Rusay sadr Weládmir Pyuthená wati hamsáhegén molk Yukrénay sará hamla kanagay jár jat. Yukrén Yuropi jamhóri molké ke ábádii chell o chár melyan ent. É jangá do haptag bit ke barjam ent o Yukrénay mazanshahr kivá hawár dega mazanén shahr eshiay zadá átkagant o porsht o próshay ámách butagant. Eshiay sawabá mazanén ...

Ehsan Haider

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یوکرێن و روسئے جێڑه: کسانێن چمشانکے

 24 پَروَریئے سُهبا روسئے سَدر وِلادمیر پیوٹِنا وتی همساهِگێن مُلک یوکرێنئے سرا هَمله کَنگئے جار جت. یوکرێن یورُپی جَمهۆری مُلکے که آبادیی چِلّ و چار مِلیَن اِنت. اے جَنگا دو هپتگ بیت که برجم اِنت و یوکرێنئے مزَنشَهر کیوا هئوار دگه مزنێن شهر اِشیئے زَدا آتکگ‌اَنت و پُرشت و پْرۆشئے آماچ بوتگ‌اَنت. اِشیئے سئوَبا مزَنێن ...

Sajid Hussain

Women, children and family members of Abdul Razzaq Baloch, who had been missing since March, hold a banner and posters during a protest outside Karachi Press Club June 4, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer/Files

Replug: The evolution of a dead body

Twenty years old and hoping to become a writer, I was eager to meet anyone who was somehow associated with literature. So I met a guy.  In 2002. A mutual literary friend took me to this man’s small apartment in Lyari where he lived with a very large family. He had translated an Urdu book, ...

Sajid Hussain

Replug: The endangered species of ruined Balochistan

I once tasted houbara bustard meat. In March 2015. At an influential royal Abu Dhabi sheikh’s palace. Actually, at the palace’s servant quarters. Pakistani passport doesn’t suit me. I’ve lost two of them as of yet. After applying for a new passport at the Pakistan embassy in Abu Dhabi, I was asked by a friend ...

Sajid Hussain

دو بَر چاپ: درانڈێهی په سَرے و شِگان په سَرے

 نۆٹ: اے کسّهی گپّ اَنت. کسّ اِشان په وت مزوریت، نه دلا بیاریت. منی درانڈێهیئے کسّه هما شومّێن رۆچا شُرو بوت که منا لبزانکئے بێهئیرێن هُبّا گوَر جت. هر نبشتَکارے که منا دۆستَ بوت، گوَشیت بیا زمانگێا درانڈێه بوتگ. مارکوێز انچُش، کُنڈئیرا همے پئیم. یکّێا سرکار زهر براێنتگ، یکّێا پئوج. همِشانی رندگیریا من وتی بێدردێن ...

Sajid Hussain

دو بَر چاپ: سْیَه‌گْواتئے ڈێه

نۆدان. تپَتگێن سِنگ و سورمگێن کۆهانی ڈێه. گۆریچ، لِوار و سْیَه‌گْواتئے هَنکێن. کَسانیا ،کۆهان که سیَه‌گواتا بستگ، ما تچان تچانا ماتئے همراهیا پێژگاهئے تاپێن گُد و تهتانی سرئے هیران چتگ‌اَنت و بانئے تها پنهگیر بوتگێن. دَروازگئے بندگئے همراهیا گوات هم ژپّگا رَستگ. ما دروازگ گۆن دوێن دستان تان هما وهدا داشتگ تان گواتا بَسّ نکرتگ، ...