A mother endures for her two disappeared sons in a drowning home

On the morning of 19 August 2025, as Karachi drowned under torrential rain, 50-year-old Sabzi stood by the doorway, her chadar wrapped tightly around her head. The water was rising inside her home, but her eyes were fixed elsewhere. That date 19 August, was carved into her mind. It was the day she had to…

ByHazaran Rahim DadAugust 22, 20250Comments

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The Story of Jan Bibi and Abdul Hameed’s Missing Son

In June 2022, during the third semester of my master’s at the University of Karachi, two of our fellow Baloch students were taken—enforcedly disappeared. The news spread like a wound across the Baloch students in the university. With their families, we set up a protest camp outside the press club. I kept posting updates on…

ByHazaran Rahim DadAugust 16, 20250Comments

POLITICS

The Odyssey of “Nako” Mayar and his Family

I had heard of “Nako” (Uncle) Mayar, who was looking for his missing son and to write his story I had to travel to the village Gilli in Tehsil Buleda. Buleda Tehsil is a peripheral region in an already peripheral province of Balochistan surrounded by mountains on all sides. It is located about 45 to…

ByHazaran Rahim DadMarch 8, 20250Comments

POLITICS Poetry

‘Your Madness Carries the Weight of Centuries’

As a Baloch child growing up in Balochistan, the years 2009, 2010, and beyond remain engraved in memory—memories that can never be erased. I often ask myself: how do the events of 2009 and years beyond, those that consumed lives, drowned memories, and silenced voices, continue to haunt us? Who can claim how a child's…

ByHazaran Rahim DadFebruary 17, 20250Comments