File photo of Balochi News publisher Waleed Garboni with pro-independence intellectual Prof. Saba Dashtiyari, who was gunned down by Pakistan's secret services in Quetta in June. The venue is Sayed Zahoor Shah Hashmi library in Malir, Karachi.
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Facebook/Waleed Garboni
The language suffers as Pakistan clearly mistrusts even the word Balochi.
The first Balochi language online newspaper that receives the largest number of hits from the United States is among the Balochistan web zines that have been blocked by the elected civilian government of President Asif Ali Zardari in Pakistan.
U.K. based Balochi linguist Waleed Garboni, who is publisher of the Balochi news said on phone Thursday from London, "Last month we received 825 hits from the U.S.A., 806 from Sweden, 790 from U.A.E. 684 from U.K. and 263 from Pakistan."
The news web zine was launched October 10, 2006.
The site has some off-the-cuff stories. "Baloch are shorter than their Iranian counterparts because of malnutrition," a headline reads Thursday. The first news item that appeared on October 10, 2006 reads, "Members of parliament in Italy are addicted ro drugs." An investigative report at the time showed one out three Italian lawmakers use illegal drugs in the past 36 hours.
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