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Malik Siraj Akbar ( Urdu: ملک سراج اکبر) is an ethnic Baloch journalist based in the United States. He is the editor-in-chief of the Baluch Hal, [1] the first online English language newspaper of Pakistan's Balochistan Province, Enkaar, [2] a liberal Urdu language news magazine, and a contributing writer for The Huffington Post.
Baloch-inhabited areas of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran (pink) in 1980 Tradition Baloch man in Sindhi traditional pantaloon-style Sindhi shalwar, 1845. Traditionally, Jalal Khan was the ruler and founder of the first Balochi confederacy in 12th century. (He may be the same as Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu the last ruler of the Khwarezmian Empire.)
Malik Mohammad Arif, a Samaa TV camera operator, was killed by a suicide bomber on 16 April 2010. [9] Faiz Muhammad Sasoli, Aaj Kal, was shot to death 27 June 2010 in Khuzdar while driving and after having survived two previous attempts on his life. Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), a militant group, claimed responsibility for killing him.
Pakistani police Monday freed 290 Baloch activists who were arrested when they attempted to hold a protest last week in the capital, Islamabad. The activists had traveled 1,600 kilometers (about ...
The Baloch are the majority ethnic inhabitants of the region of Sistan and Baluchestan Province in Iran. They speak the Rakhshani and Sarawani dialects of Balochi, an Iranian language. [2] They mainly inhabit mountainous terrains, which have allowed them to maintain a distinct cultural identity and resist domination by neighbouring rulers.
Baluch Liberation Front (founded 1964) [12] The Balochistan Liberation Army ( Balochi: بلۏچستان آجوییء لشکر; abbreviated BLA, also known as the Baloch Liberation Army ), is a Baloch ethnonationalist militant separatist organization based in Afghanistan. [21] [22] [23] [27] BLA's first recorded activity was during the summer of ...
The Baloch extended their power to Kalat, Kachhi, and the Punjab, and the wars took place between Mir Chakar Khan Rind and Mir Gwahram Khan Lashari which are so celebrated in Baloch verse. In these wars a prominent part was played by Amir Zunnun Beg, Arghun, who was governor of Kandahar under Sultan Husain Mirza of Herat about 1470.
The culture of Balochistan ( Urdu: بلوچ ثقافت, Balochi: بلۏچی دۏد ), or simply Baloch culture, is defined in terms of religious values, Balochi and Brahui language, literature and traditional values of mutual respect. It has its roots in the Balochi, Brahui, Sindhi, [1] and Pashto. [2] Folk music, handicraft, drama and Balochi ...