Sher Muhammad Marri
Mujahid Barelvi remembers a forgotten hero of the Baloch struggle. Translated from the Urdu by Babar Mirza
It is a great tragedy for this country in general and Balochistan in particular that Sher Muhammad Marri – who fought an armed struggle in the mountains during the 1950s and ‘60s and was imprisoned in different jails during the ‘70s – is hardly ever remembered in Baloch politics. Even most of the Baloch wouldn’t know where he is buried, for Sher Muhammad Marri was not a sardar or nawab whose politics and legacy had to be kept alive by his sons.
The day my lamenting eyes run out of tears
The eyes of the night of sorrow shall lose all light
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Baloch Identity And Battles: Book Explains Balochistan’s Centrality In A Period Of Chinese Ascendance
by R Jagannathan
Snapshot
- This is a great book about a great people caught in the vortex of great power rivalries in a strategic piece of real estate that links south Asia to West Asia.
- Jain has done us a great service by bringing the plight and fight of the Baloch to our notice.
Balochistan: In The Crosshairs of History. Sandhya Jain. KW Publishers Pvt Ltd. Price Rs 1,560. Pages 332. Hard cover. An e-book version is also available.
The tragedy of being situated on the highways of history, if you happen to occupy a valuable piece of real estate with a small population footprint, is that you may ultimately be only roadkill for the global powers that are steamrolling through.
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Hafizullah Hasani’s three-years-old mutilated body recognized by family
He was taken from home in Dalbandin by Pakistan army
A three-year-old body was found in Dalbandin, the capital of Chaghi District, Balochistan Province, on Thursday 10 September 2020. The family of Hafizullah Muhammad Hasani, a farmer who went missing four years ago from Balochistan, claims that it is of Hafizullah.
According to Hafizullah Mohammad Hassani’s brother Nematullah, his brother had been missing since August 30, 2016.
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The Amazing Journey Of Pakistani Students Who Joined The Baluchistan Guerrillas
In the 1970s, five young people studying in London joined the Baluch guerrillas and, along the way, joined another. The revolutionary socialists won the respect and admiration of this forgotten people
Editorial correction: “It was not Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri who contacted Mohammad Bhabha but it was Bhabha who contacted Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri and Babu Sher Mohammad Marri to work in Marri area”.
Note: English translation of an article written in Basque language by Karlos Zurutuza published on NAIZ on 29 Aug 2020.
Karlos Zurutuza
Ahmed hardly speaks of his time as a guerrilla. He is a journalist best acquainted with the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan today, so it is not surprising that he has sold a million and a half copies of his book “Taliban”, not to mention the signatures of the world’s major newspapers as analysts. In any case, before receiving all this fame, Ahmed spent ten years as a warrior with Baluch. We are talking about Ahmed Rashid.
