Tag: Baluch
Professional Journeys’ Narrative – 21
Pinching heat of summer season is well known to Baloch people living West of Dalbandin as well as west of Nukundi. We had to travel west of Ameer Chah, situated in north of Nukundi. As for the matter of drinking water, it was a journey of life risk for the entire team including the Baloch […]
Trek through Motherland to be Patriotic
Books and screens introduce only a little to the beauty of sites. Visits to parts of motherland generate different type of affiliations. Mind and sensations receive a different message. Every time you touch the bushes, stones, sand particles and water of blue lake, you feel affectionate towards these. When you meet and talk to people […]
Shivering Sentiments
Under mentioned comments are related to an article in The Daily Dawn of August 03, 2014, on page 3 of Images. What is meant by “Another lonely Eid has passed for the families awaiting their loved ones who has left for Afghanistan in response to Sufi Mohammad’s call for Jihad“? When Maulana Saleemi’s 23 years […]
Professional Journeys’ Narrative – 18
(An account of journeys exclusively based on true picture of areas and the people there. No poetic or romantic false expressions are included, Excerpt from a book in process) One of the positive contributions of President Ayyub Khan (1958 to 1968) was provision of health care facilities in remote areas of the country. The period […]
Professional Journeys’ Narrative – 17
(An account of journeys exclusively based on true picture of areas and the people there. No poetic or romantic false expressions are included, Excerpt from a book in process) The project works had been progressing from West towards East, i.e. from Iran’s border to Quetta. It was the time to shift the camp headquarter from […]
Grandeur of Baluch and Pashtuns
Visiting Quetta or populous cities of Baluchistan helps little in introduction to Baluch people. This requires rigorous traveling through trackless expanse of hilly, desert, barren fields and pebbled areas. Baluch people are born independent, and people with history of external domination, with all their learning, education and training, cannot easily assess their greatness. They are […]
Professional Journeys’ Narrative – 12
(An account of journeys exclusively based on true picture of areas and the people there. No poetic or romantic false expressions are included, Excerpt from a book in process) Before resuming the account of search for location and situation of place or village called Manzil, it will be worth while to mention that the sufferings […]
Professional Journeys’ Narrative – 11
(An account of journeys exclusively based on true picture of areas and the people there. No poetic or romantic false expressions are included, Excerpt from a book in process) Account of journey to Manzil remains postponed. I would like to explain conditions in summer in areas of South Baluchistan. During scorching heat of the month […]
Professional Journeys’ Narrative – 7
During December 1969, I was asked to take up survey works in Baluchistan Province of Pakistan. It was estimated to be a year’s job without break. Everyone of my colleagues had flatly refused to take up the project due to one reason or another. The most rigid colleagues declared that they would like to either […]
