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Notes on the Awaran Operation in Balochistan

While most of the Muslim world rejoiced and celebrated Eid al-Fitr those in Awaran, Balochistan were treated to a barge of bombs and bullets. In the early hours of June 18th, 2015 ( First day of Eid al-Fitr), Pakistani security forces cordoned off Malaar area of Kolwaah in district Awaran. All exit and entry points…

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Mehlab is Missing

Everyday in school Hani misses her friend Mehlab and tells the story of their friendship to other classmates. She still remembers her jokes, naughtiness , the dolls that she used to hide in her school bags and how they played with the dolls at her home. Her eyes become nostalgic when she remembers her. She…

ByZahid Abdulla

Nationalism, Federalism and Separatism: The Case of Balochistan

We are delighted to present Gull Awar Khan's interview with Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur. The interview was conducted in March 2013. At the time Gull Awar Khan was a research fellow at Westmister University and work towards a Phd, titled, Nationalism, Federalism and Separatism: The Case of Balochistan in Pakistan. The interview was audio-recorded and below we…

ByMir Mohammad Ali Talpur

Poetry POLITICS

Ode to SOAS Occupation

The Space On the 6th of October at around 7 pm sixty students entered and occupied the Brunei Suite, which is on the ground floor of the Brunei gallery of SOAS, and thus began the SOAS occupation. The Suite is a rectangle space about 18 meters by 11 with a total area of around 170 square…

ByQalandar Bux Memon

Gone in 300 Seconds: On the Land Grab in Balochistan

The spineless and pusillanimous members of the selected Balochistan Assembly handed over 9000 acres (36.42 sq km) of the protected Hingol National Park land to the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) in record 300 seconds giving away 30 acres per second. Made me wonder how much time would they take to hand over…

ByMir Mohammad Ali Talpur

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Class Struggle

That for many – billions – life isn’t Either easy, a bed, a house furnished, or food in the stomach, it isn’t a laugh an orgasm or smiles its hard, like ground constantly, over centuries, pounded. its sick – like bills that pile up and up and up and up. It smells of unemployment and…

ByQalandar Bux Memon

POLITICS Uncategorized

Is Kashmir Ready for Independence from India and Pakistan?

Against the backdrop of recently renewed talks between India and Pakistan and the historical baggage it carries with failed negotiations in the last 60 years, it is hard to know how long the current round of congeniality would last. If the dialogue continues this time, for sure Kashmir will be…

The Gun-Slave Cycle

The prisoner sits across from me in the cramped airless cubicle behind the plexiglass hands gently folded during this middle passage between life and death wrists ringed by steel forged by Smith & Wesson It is an old story of guns and slavery Into the lower decks of the ships the European merchants loaded chests…

ByMarcus Rediker

INTERVIEWS POLITICS

Women Changing India: An Interview with Urvashi Butalia

How does feminism manifest itself in your every day life? Feminism simply is my way of life. I breath it and base my decisions on it. I run my company on feminist principles. For example I employ women and men, but it’s important to me that both can ask for time off to be with…

ByJeanny Gering

Is Britain complicit in human rights violations in Balochistan?

Balochistan, bordering Iran to the West and Afghanistan to the North, was an independent country before the British attacked and invaded it in 1839. The Baloch ruler, at the time, Mir Mehrab Khan along with hundreds of Baloch fighters died while defending Balochistan. Later the British draw two artificial lines (borders), the Goldsmith Line (1871)…

ByFaiz M Baluch