By: Muneeb Maqsood,

A few years back, a small family of a bird in the forest lived in a nest on top of a tree. The mother bird had two chicks and it flew from its nest every day in search of food and it was practiced everyday. Once the mother bird flew away and did not return to the nest for two hours. Both small chicks were very hungry and they started licking so that their mother would listen to them and know that its chicks are hungry and waiting for it. Time passed and the mother bird could not return. The words of the mother bird echoed in the mind of one of the chicks that if it takes me a long time to return, don’t wait for me, understand that the hunters hunted me down. Tears fall down while remembering those words.

“I am very hungry.” Said the very tittle chick.

“Just a moment, our mom will bring food.” The other chick reformed the younger one to strive to survive more.

“When will mom come?” The tittle chick asked.

The question chewed on the other chick a lot and forced it to fly and search for food. The other chick was a little bigger and could fly. So, it flew.

About a few minutes later, the sound of some bullets came to the ears of the little one who was waiting for its mother and other bird in the nest. It made him desperate for food. The other bird was also hunted and killed. The little bird failed to survive and then stopped breathing in the nest. The whole family vanished from the world very soon.

The main aim of writing this short story is to let you know that each year billion of animals are hunted. In the fear not to be the victim of hunting, many animals stop searching for food outside. Howbeit, compulsion takes them out and they hardly ever return back to their children. Islam says hunting is acceptable only if you have no food or resources to earn a living, but we have made it our passion and profession. But remember, killing a creature is never a passion, but murder.

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By: Qamber Jan

ONCE upon a time, there lived a son of a rich businessman named Azam, he was not hardworking and his father provided him everything and he was enjoying his life very much. However, one of his bad qualities was that he never cared about his words and misbehaved with his friends.

A friend of him, Junaid noticed his rude behavior and proceeded to advise him not to be rude with others and said, “Dear friend, I really do not want to disappoint you by saying this. You have lost control of yourself and words and you need to control your mouth and the words you throw out of your mouth to others.”

On hearing these words, Azam blushed and replied angrily, “Who are you to advise me? My parents had not yet said anything about my behavior. Who are you? Get out of my sight.”

Junaid passed a smile and left quietly. The next day, Junaid again came to Azam for help as his brother was hospitalized and the doctors asked for Rs 4 lakh and Junaid could not afford it. He said to Azam, “I need your help. My elder brother has been admitted to the hospital due to kidney failure and the amount demanded by the doctors is unaffordable for me. Please help me and I will give your money soon. “

Junaid pleaded impatiently but Azam did not show any sympathy and said, “Do you remember the day when you said me I do not care about myself , go I will not help you.”

Junaid bowed his head and replied, “I beg your pardon, please forgive me and help me by giving me some money. I am your friend not enemy and I promise to repay my loan soon.”

“Well, I forgave you but I cannot help you because I do not have that much money since I spent all my money on building.” Azam said.

“If you do not want to help me, just say I do not want to assist, but refrain from lying.” Junaid said.

On hearing these words, Azam became angry again and said, “Yes, I do not want to waste my money on your brother, it is your responsibility to take care of your brother, not mine, so you go somewhere else and beg.”

Azam took him out of the house and pushed him near the gate.

A few years later, Azam’s father got big lose in his business and became very poor. After a big lose, he was superstitious and kept wandering from office to office to get a job since his family came to the street due to poverty. One day Azam’s father was crossing the road, he met with an accident and was rushed to hospital. When Azam got the news of his father’s accident, he rushed to the hospital and asked the doctors about his father’s health. The doctors demanded Rs 4 lakh to start the treatment and it was very important to start the treatment soon or else his father would lose his life. He called all his friends for help but no one picked up his phone because of his rude behavior.

He called Junaid. Luckily he picked up his phone but Azam was not sure to gossip with him because once Azam refused to help him, Azam hung up his call and sat at the corner

A few hours later, the doctor came to him and said, “We managed to save your father’s life. Congratulations.”

On hearing these words, Azam was shocked and went in deep thinking that who had helped his father. And then the nurse brought a letter and gave it to him. When he opened the letter and read it, tears flowed from his cheeks and he felt guilty and promised himself that he would not speak harshly and treat everyone well.

The letter states, “I am angry with you, not with your father, so I am helping him. This is my hospital and your father’s treatment was freely done.” Sent by Junaid to his friend Azam.

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Author: Abdul Rahman Shahbeer

BALOCHABAD is one of the most informative movies in Balochi industry that was released in 2020. This movie was directed and written by Shakir Shad which particularly premised women’s problems in our society.

Indeed! Women have several issues in their lives which prevent them toward progress and prosperous lives.

Undoubtedly, Sarfraz Muhmmad is known as a famous actor in Balochi movie industry and in Balochabad film, he is performing the character of Meer Taj Muhmmad as the main character too. Anita Jaleel who is known by Jan Bibi performing the acting of Meer Taj Muhmmad’s daughter in the movie and Allah Baksh Haleef called Khuda Baksh Sanata one of the main characters too.

The movie began when Khuda Baksh (Allah Baksh Haleef) and Jan Bibi (Anita Jalil) were striving for developing the woman’s education around their community and they were struggling to overcome the women’s problems in their society.

Balochabad was a very reluctant community, led by Meer Taj Muhmmad and everybody honored him and his decisions.

Particularly, in our Baloch society women’s rights are absolutely neglected in every field and they are put in different social norms and threats.

The movie highlighted the actual issues of women as they are facing them today such as lack of basic education, early marriages, brutalization without prime purpose and many more.

However, the all communists of Balochabad were against women’s education and women in Balochabad neither could ever study nor they were permitted to participate in other social activities.

But Jan Bibi (Anita Jalil) opposed to her father’s decisions who joined a radio studios (FM) in order to work and sometimes highlighted women’s issues through radio studios.

Additionally, the movie also paid a deep attention on early marriage which is rapidly growing in our society. Time and again, the movie showed that the girls aging below 12 years are getting married; in fact, it also showed several death cases during delivery.

It is abundantly clear that early marriage is really an alarming norm where women are mostly persecuted even after married off they are intended to be caged in four wall houses where they are again victimized to depression and stressful due to lack of happiness, liberation and many more.

Most importantly, the movie drew a little attention on insecurity of women outside as well as at home. Commonly, when women step outside specially men hardly abuse them and tease them and behaved rudely too. In recent days, if a woman cannot birth a boy child, she will be harshly brutalized and beaten and emotionally blackmailed by the house members.

Thus, these grievous conditions lead the women toward uncomfortable lives.

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Poet: Eshan Sabz (Balnigwar)

The world is being affected by pollution,

We have to find a solution,

There are three types of pollution,

We have to make good decisions

Air pollution is affecting the sky,

That’s why the temperature is so high,

Air pollution is also affecting us,

Due to factory and machineries’ fumes,

Water pollution is also a pollution,

For that we have to draw a conclusion,

Because, it is giving us disease,

Many people are sick,

Noise pollution is the third pollution,

This is causing us a lot of tension.

It bothers us,

Because of the sound of anything.

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Author: Rizwan Riaz (Khairabad)

ACCORDING to Bureau Statistics,  4% of the 12.34 millions population of Balochistan is unemployed and unemployment has become one of the most dangerous issues of Balochistan which needs to be addressed as soon as possible for the betterment of its people. This heinous problem has made it difficult for people to meet their basic needs in Balochistan. In fact, every year many students graduate from different universities and become unemployed. One of the main reasons behind this is corrupt officers who sell jobs to rich people. Moreover, due to unemployment, many residents of Balochistan committed suicide and still this culture is continued. Thus, I plea the government of Balochistan to provide jobs to the residents.

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Author: Hassan Zahid (Awaran)

THERE is no doubt that in Balochistan, there are numerous talented players, but their talents are only limited to football and cricket.There are other international games which are not being played in the province such as basketball, volleyball, tennis and Hockey (which is our national game). Sadly, there is no concept of these games. Additionally our youth is busy with technologies and they never show their interest in any international sports. There are many benefits of playing sports such as it reduces stress, anxiety, body fat and risk of diabetes. It also improves appearance and mood. The main reasons why sports are declined in Balochistan are lack of support from citizens, lack of availability of proper facilities and infrastructure, insufficient role of sport federation, lack of support from government and especially lack of media coverage. Another main reason is that Baloch players never get a chance to play in our international cricket team to show their skills. Every citizen of Balochistan, gvernment and especially media should encourage and support players to participate in every sport and our youngsters should be able to show their interest in sports.

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Author: Sana Samad,

BALOCHISTAN is full of natural resources, people may think that the children in Balochistan are sleeping with gold, but they never try to know that the children in Balochistan are passing their lives in streets. In last decade, the number of street children in the province has increased rapidly. Children are getting worst just due to the negligence of the concerned authorities. The street children sleep in the streets and wake up in the streets. They pass their entire day picking up garbage in the streets. One side some children go to school, but on the other side the street children have never received any support from the government to attend school. 

According to a survey, the number of street children in Pakistan has reached 1.2 million. From this, Karachi is called the city of street children where more than 30,000 street children are present. After Karachi, Quetta is the second city where a large number of street children are available. Around 20,000 street children are present in Quetta, and they are called garbage collectors, carpenters or working in automobile shops. Thousands of street children are sexually abused in only Quetta, but the children fear to share their stories. The Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Children estimated that population boom, urbanization and poverty are one of the main causes of street children in Balochistan. Nearly 43 percent among the total population under 15 years of age including around 48 adults living under poverty line earning less than one dollar a day. The other reasons are called child labor and poor quality of education which is compelled the children to come out from their family’s financial burden, however abusive environment at homes and corporal punishment in schools add to their miseries. These children become susceptible to whole form of violence and easy prey for all types of abuses. 

The young, poor, illiterate and defenseless, children are abused and exploited, sexually, verbally, emotionally and psychologically. Violence could range anything between harassment to pedophilia, sexual abuse to sodomy, coerced to join groups of criminals and used as drug traffickers or turned into beggars by the beggars’ mafia. The police have totally failed to protect the children from such violence so the police are called among the leading enemies of street children as no fear of reprisal from the law or the society against the indiscriminate violence. 

Some other survey have been conducted which have proved that 80 to 90 percent of the street children are victims of sodomy, sexual and physical abuse, not only by elders but older children within their own gangs. The street children are at the risk of health problems such as tuberculosis, jaujaundice and kidney disease. Among street children, 54 percent left their home at the age of 10 to 12 years, around 45 percent living on the street are enrolled in crimes and 49 are at the risk of HIV and AIDS. Be it economic or social factors, street children leave their homes for an uncertain future. 
The street children do not have rights of health, education or food. In many areas of Balochistan, the stench of urine pervading the all places, children as young as five take part in groups of 8 to 10 for warmth and security at night. Still no legislation is available regarding the children rights in Balochistan. A question has been raised as to when street children will be ensured to have a safe and healthy future in Balochistan. 

It is the provincial government’s responsibility to provide the fundamental rights of the children, but totally neglect the children. Small children need support to survive, but no one is willing to help them. The government has left the street children to suffer and die. The government should help the street children and bring them back to their homes and enroll them into school.

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By: Muneeb Maqsood (Singanisar)

Intermediate results were announced recently and a few days later the board issued the result cards to the institutions.  Atta Shad Degree College Turbat is one of the existing colleges in Balochistan. When the students reached the office to get their result cards, a statement came from the front that they should pay Rs.150 in the bank and get the result cards from us.  However, they are receiving Rs.150 per student and Attashad Degree College Turbat is estimated to be around 1160 students and these 1160 students have to pay Rs.150 to get their result cards.  Almost 249000 rupees college gets if each student pays 150 rupees. In fact, it is clearly a business in a government institution. Thus, I plea to the education minister to look forward it and solve our issue. 

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By: Rizwan Riaz

Once I wanted to go to my uncle’s house, it was in the village and we lived in the city. I was too excited to go to my uncle’s house because it was my first time to visit there and I have three cousins ​​at my uncle’s house. So, before meeting them, I had to buy something for them because there was no big shopping mall in the village.

After a while, I got ready to go to the market and before leaving I asked my small brother if he needed anything. Beside ordering, he requested me to take him to the market. I refused because he was small in age and the market got crowded in one place and there were chances to lose him in the crowd, so I refused to take him to the market. He kept nagging for about 2 hours and finally I accepted his wish.

We both left for the market, with our arrival in the market, as usual, we got a lot of shopping rush. We both headed to a shop. First I offered my younger brother to purchase something, he replied in frustration that he has no money. I gave him a little money to buy something. As I was busy with the shopkeeper and could not care what my little brother was doing. When I was done, I turned my head toward my brother but could not find him standing near me.

I asked the shopkeeper about my brother, the shopkeeper was also busy with me and did not pay attention to my brother. After that, I shouted his name and searched every shop in the market. Unfortunately, I was unable to find him. With broken hope, I went home and told the whole story to my mother, she was very red and screamed at me. After a while, my elder brother knocked on the main door of our home and entered with my younger brother. It made me wonder where he got my brother from. Luckily, my brother knew the address of our elder brother’s shop and he went there.

At last, caring is very important and we have to be careful about each and everything around us. Sometimes, we have little friends or cousins ​​to cross the streets. We take care of ourselves but forbid taking care of our little ones while crossing the streets. It causes road accidents. Therefore, we must take care of our little ones anytime and anywhere.

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