Karim Bakhsh, a boy passionate about Balochi literature and poetry, and a resident of Gomazi (Tump), was brutally killed by local death squads in Kohaad, Tump last month. His helpless mother, consumed by grief, demands justice. Alongside her family,...
Reading books not only tells tales but also fosters a love for knowledge and wisdom, and changes and makes the readers committed through their peaceful and comfortable environment. Books inspire creativity, shape thinking, empower understanding and embolden the self-interest...
In the forgotten landscapes of Balochistan, a silent scream echoes through the valleys and mountains. It is the cry of a generation lost, of childhood shattered, and of families torn apart by the brutal forces of conflict and state-sponsored...
Balochistan, a colonized land, suffers not only from the extrajudicial abduction, assassination, torture, and maltreatment of its native people but also from the systematic suppression of the book-reading culture. Books are seized as if they were contraband, and knowledge...
“Sir, these are books,” echoes in the air around everywhere on social media when a student, held by the police along with the books, saying the statement repeatedly.
Firstly, it was Gowader, then Naseerabad, and Uthal, and Turbat – the...
In the heart of Quetta, amidst the bustling streets of Brewery Road, a small yet significant musical revolution has been taking shape since 2016. Founded by three passionate classmates, Azam Baloch, Farooq Baloch and Aurangzaib Muneer later joined by...
Under subjugation, a people is deprived of all the fundamentals of life – as a rule. Human rights violations, eventually, become a norm in such a society. Anti-people policies form and reshape (reform) with time, ensuring that the rule...
Nacro politics is a concept in which a population is colonized and their life and death is decided by the state. It means that the state decides that who she wants to be subjected to death.
In Balochistan, nacro politics...
The French Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist and a key figure in the Algerian liberation movement, Frantz Fanon, in his book, Wretched of The Earth, stresses that “Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.” It is, in fact, the violence which shapes from...
From children to the elderly men to women, and ordinary folks to intellectual minds, no one is safe in Balochistan. People of all ages remain vulnerable to the iron grip of this ruthless state apparatus, enduring enforced disappearances, extrajudicial...
