I raise my hands and pray to My Lord May the bridal tent of Sammo receives umbrella of rain drops So she ties mat on her tent with her long beautiful fingers She comes out and views the rain How clouds are made and from which direction they pour down ...

A supporter of Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales yells at a police officer, telling him to respect the nation’s indigenous people in La Paz, Bolivia, 2019 IN NOVEMBER 2019 President Trump welcomed the coup in Bolivia that toppled its democratically elected president, Evo Morales, as “one step closer to a ...

O’ Gracious God bestow the Baloch Nation with persons who are; Sagacious, valiant, magnanimous, compassionate and courageous too Their prudence and sagaciousness be more glorious than the brightest morns Their evergreen wisdom be resplendently dazzling in magnificence and majesty Their minds, thoughts and discernment all free of fetters of obsolete ...

THE life and struggles of Hasil Khan Bizenjo, who passed away last week, defines the conundrum the state of Pakistan has turned Balochistan into. He succeeded in achieving many things he attempted but his efforts to secure for Balochistan the degree of democratic self-rule, allowed to a large extent to ...

In one of his articles, Dr Asif Farrukhi discussed Deputy Nazir Ahmad’s novel Taubatan Nasooh (The Repentance of Nasooh). In this novel, Deputy Ahmad shows the titular Nasooh burning books that he finds objectionable. My friend, the writer Ajmal Kamal, reminded me that, ultimately, Deputy Ahmad himself became a victim ...

In this day and age, with escalating mask requirements by either state, local, or private entities like Wal-Mart, the mask has become a symbol of our broken time. Yet, in a day and age where masks are becoming more and more a requirement for everyday living due to the COVID-19 ...

The unfortunate murder of Anwar Khetran served two purposes. First, he was killed so that a vocal opponent of the tribal elite of Barkhan was eliminated. Second, the more sinister intent behind this killing was to spread fear among all other citizen journalists and to give them a message that ...

In light of the George Floyd protests, it’s important to note that the very institution of policing is rooted in the slave trade, plantation owners, and slave catchers of the 18th and 19th centuries in this country. When slaves were emancipated by Abraham Lincoln on paper in 1863 with the ...

IF you are an unemployed journalist and no newspaper accepts your contribution and your own publication folds for want of resources, what do you do? Most such journalists might become clerks somewhere or start selling chholey. But a Baloch journalist found a different answer more than 40 years ago. He ...

Sammo spends her life among the sheep grazing in the hills of Rustarani and fetches water from long distances. She bare-footedly follows her herd. It doesn’t befit a radiant face to be among the nibbling sheep.