Sherbaz Mazari had been refusing offers for interviews from television channels and top journalists. But when I and my friend, Hakeem Baloch, left him a message that we were two young Baloch and wanted to understand our recent political...
As our government mulls over the questionable fate of the Seraiki province, protests have erupted all over the country with calls for all kinds of provinces – provinces based on ethnicities, provinces based on “administrative grounds”, provinces based on...
Brahvi is one of the oldest languages of the Indian Sub-continent and Brahvi speaking people are found in Balochistan, Sindh, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Iran. There are many theories about the origin of Brahvi language. Some people claim that brahvi...
Balochi is spoken in south-western Pakistan, south-eastern Iran, southern Afghanistan, the Gulf States and Turkmenistan. There are also communities of Baloch in East Africa and India, as well as in several countries of the West, e.g. UK and the...
The word Women, comprising of five alphabets, has a lot of meanings in different societies. When green revolution ended the authority of women diminished and with the help of Religion and social laws role of women was minimized in...
Faiz Mohammad Baloch, the Woody Guthrie of the desert. Born in Iranian Balochistan in 1900, he migrated to Indian Baluchistan as a young boy.
Karachi’s bazaars and workshops drew his father to Lyari where Faiz, like hundreds of thousands other...
Zarina Baloch was a folk music singer and composer. She was also an actress, writer, teacher, political and social worker.
Early life and family
Early life and family
Zarina Baloch's mother, Gulroz, died in 1940 when Zarina was six years old. At...
Despite being part of tribal society, women of Balochistan have been expressing themselves through the medium of folk and wedding songs, said speakers at a one-day seminar on “Women and Literature in Balochistan."
“Wedding songs and folk lores are a...
By reading the portion of poetry in Balochi literature no one can ignore the contributions of females' poetry and poetic creativity; one can get a plethora of thought provoking characters that were born to be the symbols of change...
It is estimated that Balochi speakers are more than 20 million and most of them reside in Pakistani Balochistan, Iranian Balochistan, Afghanistan and other parts of the Asia and Europe. They have got different dialects of Balochi speaking living...
