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Baluchistan Status of the Sardars
The set up of the tribal system is the result of an evolutionary process of hundreds of years. The seed of tribal system was sown in the time of Mir Chakar Khan Rind. In the reign of Ahmadzai Khans, the sardars of Balochistan were strengthened...
Baluchistan Tribal System
The social organization of the Balochis is based on blood kinship. Different groups of people mostly descend from a common ancestor. Members of each group share common interests and liabilities. This has made clan organization the basis of Baloch...
Persian ensemble focus on joyful sounds Vashaan host CD launch at Cap Saturday
Vashaan Ensemble, NSCU Centre for the Performing Arts, Capilano University, Saturday, Feb. 2 at 8 p.m.Tickets $35 adults/$30 students. VIP Tickets $45. Available online, or in person at Highlife (1317 Commercial Drive) and various Persian...
Balochi Embroidery- an Ancient Art
Balochistan is the largest province in terms of area. No other part of Pakistan Iran can match the rich variety of stitches in traditional embroidery created by the women and also well-known from the oldest civilization of the world” Mehrgarh”...
Eyewitness Balochistan-12 The two realities of Pashtuns and Baloch
Amir Mateen
QUETTA: People in Balochistan hate it when the self-styled armchair experts sitting in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi generalize about them. Baloch intellectual Dr Janazeb Jamaldini is incensed every time “my Punjabi friends”...
Rich Baloch culture, a feast for Lok Mela visitors
The rich culture and traditions of Balochistan displayed at ‘Lok Mela’ prove to be an opportunity for the visitors to value the arts and crafts of the province along with the display of cultural materials of other provinces.
The good, the bad & the Lyari
Considered to be one of the most desperate slum areas in South Asia, Lyari is also the oldest locality of Pakistan’s sprawling, unpredictable and edgy metropolis, Karachi. In the last decade or so, Lyari has constantly been appearing in the...
Balochi ensembles: The threads of time
QUETTA: Balochistan, usually associated with images of barren lands, mountains, deserts and political unrest, has a rich culture of arts and crafts which is still unknown to many Pakistani. One of the popular arts and crafts of the region...
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A number of tribes constitute to make people of Balochistan. Three major tribes are Baloch, Pashtoon and Brahvi. The Balochi speaking tribes include Rind, Lasher, Marri, Jamot, Ahmedzai, Bugti Domki, Magsi, Khosa, Rakhashani, Dashti,...
Tent Living – Kahoum Village, Zahedan . Baluchestan
Photos by Sadeqh Souri, Mehr News Agency
The village of Kahoum is located by the hillside of Birak Mountain in the province of Baluchistan in southeast Iran. About 40 families live in this village under primitive conditions in tents called kapar. ...
Balochi music
Balochi music (or Baluchi music) refers to music performed by the Baloch people in Sistan and Baluchestan Province an eastern province in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Balochistan, a western province in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, southern...
Coke Studio: Musical voyage through various languages
By Naveed Masood / Rafay Mahmood KARACHI: The second-last episode of “Coke Studio 4” took its viewers through a musical excursion across Pakistani culture. The latest session featured songs in six different languages including Bhraj, Sindhi,...
Balochi Embroidery
The province of Balochistan, where brings an image of barren lands and mountains also holds an exclusive richness in its culture that is intriguing yet unknown to many, who live in other parts of Pakistan.
Who Are the Baloch?
To the neighboring Pushtun tribes, who live in fertile riverine valleys, Baluchistan is “the dump where Allah shot the rubbish of creation. But for the Baluch, their sense of identity is closely linked to the austere land where they have...
Baloch people
The Baloch or Baluch (بلوچ) are an ethnic group that belong to the larger Iranian peoples. Baluch people mainly inhabit the Baluchestan region and Sistan and Baluchestan Province in the southeast corner of the Iranian plateau in Western...