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‘Unsilencing Balochistan’

Faiz Baluch 8th September 2019

By Desmond Fernandes Just over 4 years ago, “on the evening of April 24, one of Karachi’s most prominent social activists, Sabeen Mahmud, was shot dead after leaving an event called ‘Unsilencing Balochistan’ [Take 2], that her organization, The Second Floor, had arranged”. This event had been organised “after a previous roundtable on the same […]Read More

Khatchatur I. Pilikian Obituary

Faiz Baluch 7th September 2019

By Desmond Fernandes It is with great sadness that we heard of the passing away of Khatchatur I. Pilikian, a patron of Peace in Kurdistan, on 28th July 2019. Khatchatur was an indefatigable defender of human rights, a brilliant orator, an internationally acclaimed leading tenor and a sharp-edged public intellectual whose texts and presentations, like […]Read More