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Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

17 articles published

“Quilts don’t warm hearts”: On the continued Repression of the Baloch

Last week the Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif dispatched ten trucks loaded with quilts and shawls worth Rs9.2 million from Lahore for earthquake-stricken areas of Balochistan and talking to media he said that 30 thousand quilts and warm shawls costing Rs92.4 million as 90 more trucks laden with similar supplies would be sent to the…

ByMir Mohammad Ali TalpurFebruary 9, 20240Comments

“Why do they fear books?”

"The Baloch should acquire what colonizers call subversive education because the education that colonizers provide can only pollute minds and blunt the will for liberty" On 13th January the Frontier Corps (FC) of Balochistan raided a book fair being held at Atta Shad Degree College Turbat dispersing students anxious to get books for reading and confiscating books…

ByMir Mohammad Ali TalpurFebruary 9, 20240Comments

The State vs The People – Notes on the History of Pakistan

'Masses are known to have wrought miracles in history; nothing is beyond them'. No entity, group, nation or state whatever the basis for its creation or existence can have priority over the intrinsic rights of the people it integrates to itself for supposedly higher and noble aims. Imposition of languages, culture, ethics and values however…

ByMir Mohammad Ali TalpurFebruary 9, 20240Comments

“Benefit of Doubt”: On the Murder of Dalits and the Baloch

On October 9, 2013 a division Bench of the Patna High Court (PHC) absolved all the 26 persons of Ranvir Sena (RS) accused of massacre of 58 Dalits, including 27 women and 10 children in Laxmanpur Bathe village in Bihar's Jehanabad district on December 1, 1997of all the charges; 16 of them had been awarded…

ByMir Mohammad Ali TalpurFebruary 9, 20240Comments

“Black Humour”: On the Politicians Promise

I am convinced that if promises were bombs there wouldn’t be a soul left alive here. Promises come cheap and are the handiest tool to bamboozle people into believing fantasies they would otherwise reject as garbage. Here even the solemn but empty promises of courts recovering Baloch missing persons, of trying Musharraf for treason, of…

ByMir Mohammad Ali TalpurFebruary 9, 20240Comments

“Take no prisoners”: On Extra-Judicial Killings in Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan

A few days back I.A. Rehman Sahib Director Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) in his piece, “Of prisoners’ rights” (November 14th, Dawn) wrote about the recent Federal Judicial Academy seminar, attended by luminaries of judiciary here, on prisoners’ vulnerability. Among other problems faced by the prisoners the overcrowding of jails in Punjab and Sindh…

ByMir Mohammad Ali TalpurFebruary 9, 20240Comments

The Journey of Love Continues: Notes on Voice of Baloch Missing Persons Long March

The grueling historic long march by the relatives of Baloch missing persons and extra-judicially killed persons having started on October 27th finally reached Karachi on the 22nd of November. They spent 27 days on the road walking thirty kilometers or more daily without a break. They were no extreme sports practitioners who would easily survive the rigors…

ByMir Mohammad Ali TalpurFebruary 9, 20240Comments