Education in Balochistan under threat on August 26, 2022Picture credit IRC Education in Balochistan under threat. Balochistan is one of the under privileged provinces of Pakistan that has been struggling to seek its basic needs and rights to be equally facilitated with other provinces of Pakistan. Despite being the largest province of Pakistan in geography and smallest in number, the population inside is […]
Pakistani film maker won the international short film festival on July 30, 2022Quetta: Safar Ali Danish, won the international short film festival. His short film “Parwaz Dar Shab” (Flying in Darkness) won the best short film international at 8th “Shahr International film festival Iran”. The win is amongst 90 Countries and 1050+ submissions. “Parwaz dar shab” (Flying in Darkness) is a story of a Hazar girl Najeeba. […]
Balochistan in media – Media in Balochistan on June 13, 2022Media in Balochistan Balochistan is as distant and faraway from the rest of the country as its representation/coverage on mainstream media platforms in Pakistan. In other words, the geography and the people residing in the province matters to the same extent the way those in the upper bloc of the power corridors want them to […]
Rethinking Hazara identity — gender space vulnerability on April 26, 2022PC: Sadat Saboori These vignettes bring a question to the fore: what leaves the Hazara community, women specifically, subject to policing, surveillance in an urban setup? In doing so, this short piece aims to understand the reproduction of gendered regimes and the processual effects it produces, making Hazara women more vulnerable. […]