Opinion

Editorial Express Tribune If there is one certain way to impede development, it is to deny education to a population. It was Alexander Pope who, in his 1709 work An essay on Criticism, who wrote: ”A little learning is a dangerous thing.” This was later paraphrased into ‘a little knowledge is a dangerous thing’. The implication was that knowledge — ...

By Mariyam Suleman Baloch  The last ten months hold great significance for Balochistan due to various legislation, and expansions of mega projects which mainly include projects associated with education along with health. The implementation process for these laws has not started yet but new laws are added by the members of provincial assembly. Recently, a piece of legislation related to the inclusion ...

By Nabeel Lal  Living in Panjgur, a small town in Balochistan (Pakistan), it had always been my dream to visit the United States for educational purpose and gain new experiences. When I was a high school student in Panjgur, my teachers used to tell me that I had the potential to achieve my goals. It has always been my goal ...

By Dr. Taimur Rahman The Pakistani establishment wants that Mama Qadeer’s Voice of Baloch Missing Persons march should pass through Punjab as quietly and uneventfully as possible. That is why while working journalists have been covering the story, the establishment has somehow managed to get editors and anchors to completely ignore this event. They want to continue to keep the ...

By Aziz Ejaz  Mama, When you intended to sit in a bivouac with the decorated visual of the disappeared photos of those all innocent children’s fathers and brothers; have gone missing since 2000. The quench of seeing the abducted allowed you and the fellows of you to toil till the last inhalation from the day, a 12 years old daughter ...

MUHAMMAD ARSALAN ASHRAF  “Human brain is potentially more attracted towards negativity and bad memories stay longer than the good ones” This fact kept me wondering and I started visualizing our media, vicinity and everyday happenings, to my surprise  I was pretty much convinced that if you want to sell anything, be negative. With the time fleeing very fast, media industry ...

Editorial Dawn.com THE discovery of mass graves in the restive Khuzdar district of Balochistan late last month opened an ugly new chapter in a long-running and sordid tale. With a Supreme Court-mandated inquiry committee to present its findings at the next hearing in Islamabad on March 7, the details are still quite scarce. Whose bodies were found and how they ...

Within a week after the election of a new president for the Balochistan Union of Journalists (B.U.J.), the largest representative organization of journalists in the province, a journalist and his driver were shot dead in Balochistan’s Jaffarabad District. Mohammad Afzal Khawaja, a reporter for Daily Balochistan Times (English) and its sister publication in Urdu, Zamana, was killed by unknown armed ...

By Mariyam Mohammed Suleman  The two-day visit of Gwadar this week by the Chief Minister of Balochistan Dr Adbul Malik Baloch, brought a lot of expectations for the suffering inhabitants of the region. Specifically for the fishermen who have been troubled with the issue of the illegal trawlers from Sindh for over ten years now. However the previous dictator as ...

By Yousaf Ajab Baloch In Baloch society where women rarely play a role in public life, Farzana Majeed has bucked the trend. She has emerged as a symbol of struggle for Baloch missing persons. Farzan Majeed (29) is daughter of Baloch nationalist leader, Majeed Bizenjo. Majeed in his youth was a student activist with progressive leanings. After students politics he emerged ...