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Balochistan: Between Dr. Malik and a Hard Place.

Image: Protesters demand the right to education in Balochistan. Dr. Malik Baloch, Chief Minister of Balochistan, in a recent talk with Dawn media group claimed that the security situation in Balochistan had improved and that there has been a drastic reduction in human rights abuses against the Baloch. As evidence for his claim he pointed…

As long as I shall breathe ( Atlantic ocean, Spring 2006)

I´ve tried to write a poem before I´ve tried to work on a poem like it was a quest of finding the right word to express the inexpressible and it was helpless as for summer rain to cool a Maui noon or quench the Earth in San Martín I have worshipped the lines Of…

ByVeronica Pamoukaghlian

“28th August: A Wake-Up Call for the Baloch”

Picture: The author with the son of Raza Jahangir. Raza Jahangir was killed by the Pakistani army on 14th Auguest 2013 and this father Bahktiyar was killed on 28th Auguest 2014. On 28th August 2014 around dawn a relative of my friend Sahib Jan Marri received a call from Sakrand police who told him that they…

ByMir Mohammad Ali Talpur

INTERVIEWS POLITICS

Exclusive Interview with Commander Dr. Allah Nazar of the Baloch Liberation Front

Dr Allah Nazar is Balochistan’s most popular middle-class nationalist leader. Belonging from a modest family in Balochistan’s town of Mashkay, he started his political career from Baloch Students Organization (BSO). He founded his own faction of BSO in February 2002 that openly advocated an armed struggle for liberating Balochistan. In 2003, he went underground to…

On Sindhi Culture

Below we present a speech by Mir Muhammad Ali Talpur on Sindh and its culture that was read-out on an occasion celebration Sindh Culture Day, in Dallas, Texas. Respected Ladies and Gentleman, I would first like to thank the organizers of the event for kindly according me the opportunity to talk to you on…

ByMir Mohammad Ali Talpur

INTERVIEWS POLITICS

The War on the Baloch: An Interview with Meerain Baloch

Qalandar Bux Memon: It has been widely acknowledged that the Pakistani establishment has used right-wing Sunni jihadi organisations as a way to counter Baloch insurgents, who are secularist in their philosophies. Would you agree with this statement, and what examples are there of the complicity between jihadis and the state? Meerain Baloch - Yes, that is…

ByMeerain Baloch

“Waae Watan Hoshken Daar”

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was a journalist, an essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. A hundred years before Hitler burnt books which the Nazis thought were unpatriotic and subversive he had said that, “Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human…

ByMir Mohammad Ali Talpur

“Iron wills never bend”

On February 4th, a day before Pakistan closes down ostentatiously for the rights of Kashmiris, Pakistani intelligence agencies’ personnel harassed the Voice of Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) Long Marchers with intimidation and questions. They didn’t stop at that they even harassed a Baloch family which stopped to greet the Marchers by asking them for their National…

ByMir Mohammad Ali Talpur

‘One who pays the piper calls the tunes’: On China in Balochistan

Have you ever thought when and why an investor needs to have armed back-up for it to continue to develop, yes that is what they say to develop, a mine a port or power-station etc. They need to do have armed security when they are doing it without the consent of the people and need…

ByMir Mohammad Ali Talpur

“Confounding the people”

A few days back Balochistan National Party (BNP-M) chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal threatened that legislators of his party will resign from assemblies if dumping of mutilated bodies of Baloch youth continues. The establishment must surely be quaking in its boots worried to death at the dire consequences of unprecedented turmoil in Balochistan if he in…

ByMir Mohammad Ali Talpur