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“Adpositions of Balochi” @TajBloch سرجمیں ویڈیوءَ چہ جَھلءِ لِنکءَ بچاراِت۔ youtu.be/83BlQwJGhUE?si…

بلوچیءِ نامگال چوں کار کنت؟ | Nominal system of Balochi @TajBloch سرجمیں ویڈیوءَ چہ جَھلءِ لِنکءَ بچاراِت۔ youtu.be/NN_SHefafPg?si…

کریمہ بلوچ ءِ یات ءَ تاج بلوچ @TajBloch

بلۆچ جُنز وتی نِزۆریاں مئیم بکنت ⁦@Farhadwbaloc⁩ balochistantimes.com/baloch-jonz-wa…

Verb moods of Balochi | بلوچی کارگالءِ چاڑ @TajBloch سرجمیں ویڈیوءَ چہ جَھلءِ لِنکءَ بچاراِت۔ youtu.be/M3uiid9OsRE?si…

بلوچی زُبان چوں لبز جوڈ کنت | Morphology of Balochi @TajBloch سرجمیں ویڈیوءَ چہ جَھلءِ لِنکءَ بچاراِت۔ youtu.be/rB4RyjcfIuo?si…

“بلوچیءِ توارینک | Phonology of Balochi” @TajBloch سرجمیں ویڈیوءَ چہ جَھلءِ لِنکءَ بچاراِت۔ youtu.be/P9sQrVkf6F0?si…

مھلب نصیر وتی مشکتءِ سپرءِ کسّہءَ آرگا اِنت۔ @MehlabNaseer

چیرمین ءُ ھاشُمءَ زیادهیں پَرکے نیست. چیرمینءِ بَس گُد ءُ چئوَٹ نوکین اَنت. دگه، سیاستءَ دوئینانی دیم یکّیں پئیما سیاه اِنت. نبشته: @kamalanBibagr balochistantimes.com/%da%a9%db%86%d…

مرچی منی همراهیءَ دگه یکے دیم په چیر کپتگ. نزاناں کئے اِنت، چونینے، کئیا جتگ، مئیارئےِ چے بوتگ؟ اینچو کرنءِ گوزگا پد، نوں منا وتی مئیار هم یات نکنت. مرد که کپتگ، مودئےِ مزن اَنت، ناکن‌ئےِ پِر نیست. آزمانکار: جمشید غنی balochistantimes.com/%D9%BE%DB%86%D…

بی ٹی پوڈکاسٹ: “بلوچستانءَ گیرتءِ نامءَ کوش” ھبرکنوک: ولید لال ءُ سلمان سلیم مھمان: گراناز بلوچ youtu.be/K64Xnpf6KGI?si…

اے هبر تچک اِنت که راستیءِ منوگر ءُ نگدکار چه دوئیں نیمگاں مشکوک کنگ بنت که آیانی ترندیں هبر بازیں بُتے پروشنت، وت‌گلائیانی دیما دارنت، بلے آ وتی مهکمیں آوازءَ دگرےءِ گُشگءِ پدءَ لَهم نکننت. نبشته: @NabeelArmaan_ balochistantimes.com/daneshwar-junz…

Censorship on Instagram Despite our efforts, social media platform @instagram has been unwilling to restore our account (balochistantimes), which it permanently disabled three weeks ago on the pretext that we had ‘violated’ its community guidelines. As for what those supposed violations were, we have been given no specific answer. Meanwhile, we remain without one of the important platforms to share the stories of the Baloch people, who face the might of Pakistan’s powerful army almost daily. This, to put it plainly, is censorship. The thing that makes it worse is that we suspect it was done at the request of the Pakistani government, which operates at the pleasure of Pakistan’s military establishment, the force responsible for suppressing the Baloch people, an ethnic minority in Pakistan. The mainstream Pakistani media has long been under the ‘control’ of the military and has been unable or maybe even unwilling to give space to the acts of violence committed by the army in Balochistan. In such a scenario, social media has been one of the few venues where minorities could raise their voices for the world to hear. Platforms such as X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, and Instagram were places where persecuted people in Pakistan, such as the Baloch, the Pashtuns, and the Hazaras, could share their pain. But these platforms are no longer out of the reach of the Pakistani state’s long arm. We had a relatively large following on Instagram, with about 30,000 people following us on the platform. In places such as the Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan, where Twitter and Facebook are banned, Instagram was the only means for us to connect with our audience. This is not the first instance of censorship that we have faced. Instagram permanently disabled our Balochi-language account last year without giving us a chance to even go through the generic appeal process that they have. We just received a curt message that the account was gone, and that we should forget about it. @Meta platforms, like all other social media apps, consider themselves torchbearers of the principles of freedom of speech. But in reality, they act as tools in the hands of suppressive regimes. They protect their business interests at the cost of the suffering of the most vulnerable communities in the world. Balochistan has problems, Pakistani military-made problems, and those problems need reporting. Enforced disappearances need reporting, the extrajudicial killing of activists needs reporting, and so do all the other problems that ethnic and linguistic minorities, and even mainstream opposition political parties, face in the country. We were under the impression that it was normal to report on those problems, but we were wrong. It seems the new normal on Mr Mark Zuckerberg’s platforms is to censor all those who report on human rights violations in Pakistan, which is a country that even presidents of the United States of America have said sponsors terrorism.

Social media platform @instagram has suspended Balochistan Times’ main account, citing unspecified violations of its community guidelines. The suspension took place on Monday and appears to follow a complaint from Pakistan’s Telecommunication Authority (PTA). Our suspicion is based on a separate notice received on Tuesday from @X, informing us that the PTA had filed a complaint regarding our reporting on this platform. The timing suggests a coordinated effort to silence our reporting. The PTA has a record of acting under pressure from Pakistan’s security establishment to suppress dissenting voices, particularly those critical of enforced disappearances carried out by the military and intelligence services. We have appealed the decision and urge Instagram to restore the account. Since our founding by Sajid Hussain and a group of volunteers a decade ago, Balochistan Times has reported consistently on human rights violations in the region. We have built a following of nearly 30,000 people on Instagram. Sajid Hussain, a respected journalist who covered Balochistan with integrity and dedication, went missing in Sweden in March 2020. His body was later found in a river in Uppsala. His case was covered by international outlets including The New York Times, the CNN, the BBC and The Guardian. The suspension of our account (balochistantimes) raises serious questions about platform accountability, especially in contexts where press freedom is already under sustained threat. We believe our reporting complies with Instagram’s community guidelines, and we strive to uphold journalistic standards. Our work aims to amplify the voices of the Baloch people whose stories, particularly cases of enforced disappearance, are mostly ignored by Pakistan's mainstream media. We call on Instagram to reinstate our account immediately. We also appeal to press freedom organisations, digital rights groups and fellow journalists to stand with us in defending independent journalism.

تنکید یک سِهت‌مندیں سیاسی کلچرےءِ رودینَگءِ مستریں راه اِنت. ءُ هیومَر تنکیدءِ کِسمے. هاں، تنکید یا هیومرءِ مانا اے نه‌اِنت که مردمانی سرا بیھودَگی بکن یا وتی سیاسی مخالفاں زا ءُ بد بکن یا آهانی کِردارکُشیءَ بکن. نبشته: @Sameer_Mehrab balochistantimes.com/political-crit…