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Balochistan portion of The Baloch News focuses on the Baloch personalities who have contributed greatly in Balochi and Brahvi languages or they have worked for the betterment of Baloch and Balochistan in political, literary and social platforms. It also includes the Balochi folk stories that have much popularity in Baloch nation and the Baloch ancestors used to tell those stories to the young generation so that the centuries old stories remain alive in the hearts of Baloch nation.

Balochistan is the largest of Pakistan's provinces by the geographical area and least populated province too, forlornly the province has been confronting the manifold challenges since its beginning but still, those pros-and-cons of the province remain unresolved. Undoubtedly, Balochistan faces...
Balochistan, the richest province of Pakistan, shockingly, is facing the days of having witnessed the worst standard of living in the twenty-first century. In an era, where electricity, gas, health, education etc are deemed the basic requirements of a simple...
Dr Raheela Shay Baloch, who from her childhood, dreamed of living as an independent girl and remained committed to vanish the created stereotypes about women in the society. Like other girls she was also told to get married as...
Shazia Mehrab is one of a few female lawyers in Balochistan and the first ever female lawyer of Gwadar district in southwestern Pakistan. She has emerged as a great motivation for the women of Gwadar and Balochistan as she has...
Jamila still remembers the day when she became the victim of an inhuman local marriage custom in Harnai District of Balochistan; she was taken to her husband’s home screaming. Her marriage was neither for love nor an arranged one. She...
Shabir Rakshani is a resident of Awaran. He obtained his basic education from his home town Awaran. In childhood he wished to become a doctor to serve the society, but due to financial crisis and poverty he couldn’t accomplish...
Today, the streets of Lyari might be known as the hub of gangsters, drug and weapon smugglers, but decades ago, it was the center of international footballers and boxers. In the same narrow and filthy streets of deprived Lyari,...
Bejjari is a great tradition in Baloch society coming from generation to generation, which means support. Before starting of a Balochi wedding the parents of the boy go for Bejjari to their close relatives. The kith and Kin of groom’s...
Qadir Bakhsh Rind Baloch alias Kadu Makrani was born and brought up in Makran, Balochistan. He rose up as an insurgent in Kathiawar, Gujrath, got martyred and buried in Karachi in 1887 in Mewah Shaw graveyard (Lyari). He is...
Stories are perhaps the most valued heritage of any literature in the world. It’s the folk tales, lore and poems that tell us about the early histories of nation across the globe. The Baloch, too, come to know about...

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