Fariq Riaz Baloch

storyteller- I connect more with the stories of Balochistan and try to tell them through my films 🎥

[Nadia Jamil @NJLahori]

Rizwana is a normal 14 year old. She loves to dress up, play with dolls, laugh, look pretty.

But she was sent into labour and beaten and tortured. Her limbs were broken, her head was smashed till the bone poked into her brain. She was forced to drink toilet cleaner and has burn marks all over her body from the acid burns and iron burns.
Her teeth were smashed.

She was left to rot in an empty house while the perpetrators went on holiday. When they returned she could barely breathe and her wounds had caught maggots. Especially on her head.

Months and months of surgeries, hair removal, hair still not growing over the raw skin of her head wounds, skin grafting and she is still in hospital.

Why this was done to her is hardly the question we need to ask. It’s evident. We expose poor children to self entitled monsters as a solution to poverty. These children are a source of income for parents who often have nine, ten of them, to make them work. They are trafficked by middle men as the cheapest most vulnerable form of slave labour. Those who speak kindly to these child slaves feel they are good people. Whereas it would be kinder to support the family and send the child to school to grow up, have a future and break the cycle of child trafficking and poverty. It would be kinder to make sure the constitution is followed and they be in full time education by five. In UK if a poor woman put her minor child to slave labour she would be arrested.
It is not the responsibility of children to raise the economic status of their families. It is ours, the states, their parents and the adults of our countries responsibility.

The woman who smashes up and tortured Rizwana is a mother of two and a school teacher. She is free on bail. Her husband a civil judge, reflects the joke of our own systems, as he slapped Rizwana many times and witnessed this brutality. He has been given a promotion recently.

This is the farce of justice and progress in our country.

Please change it. Please be part of the solution. Please raise voice for #JusticeForRizwana and #EndChildTrafficking. Now. Please demand a #ChildProtectionSystemPakistan. Now.

Rizwana is like my daughter. But how many Rizwana’s have no voice?
And how many #FatimaFariros will die raped and abused on cctv infront of a zombie nation and never get justice?
Till when?

Thank you.

Photographs shared with consent of parents, Rizwana & local authorities. Please don’t share photographs of minors without such consent. In the last picture Rizwana is wearing a wig I got her. She still has no hair. She still struggles to walk. She is still on and out of hospitals for surgeries and skin grafts. While her perpetrators are rewarded and scot free.

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[MoTaz @motazazaiza9]

You are all useless
Without shame watching us getting killed one by one
Will wait my turn to be killed by Israel
And believe me you are gonna do nothing

[Matiullah Jan @Matiullahjan919]

A journalist should never talk to victims and oppressed like that.

@GFarooqi should put such questions to people in power. I felt ashamed as a journalist watching this cruelty of forcing a hapless victim to condemn some “terrorist organisations” the state has apparently failed to protect them from in their homes.

This lady journalist tried to put the life of an alleged victim of state terrorism in real danger by forcing her to condemn some non-state terrorists as well.

This interview reminds me of a journalist who was walking through a camp of Bosnian muslim women refugees and shouting “anybody raped and who can speak English pls.” This is a worst form of journalism confronting victims as if they were some government officials or politicians.

#GharidaMustApologise

[Veengas @VeengasJ]

If @MahrangBaloch_ were from Palestine, her video would likely be widely shared by Pakistan elite authors, activists, and politicians. However, as a Baloch woman courageously speaking out against injustice in Balochistan, her efforts often go unrecognized.

[Paul Williams @freemonotheist]

Western secular liberal values in action

[KHURRAM @Khurram_zakir]

This image defies many taboos contrary to our societal norms. It depicts a 55-year-old man marrying a divorced woman, and in this marriage, the woman's son stands shoulder to shoulder with her on her special day. This is a very unconventional image that may be unimaginable in our society. However, it beautifully illustrates that we should not criticize the choices of divorced men and women when they decide to remarry. Social customs should be for the convenience of people, not to restrict their freedom.
Societies are divided by hatred and connected by love. 🌺🌹🌸🌿🎋🌹

[Sobs @emerxalds]

Mahira's son walking her down the aisle and sitting with her during the nikkah is just so beautiful. im not crying. im not crying. 😭
#MahiraKhan

[Fariq Riaz Baloch @FariqBaloch]

Recent work for wipo #wipo #womenofpakistan #ipo

[World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) @WIPO]

From rural Pakistan🇵🇰 to the global stage

Women embroiderers in rural areas are blending traditional stitches with contemporary trends – taking their artistry beyond borders

[Fariq Riaz Baloch @FariqBaloch]

Best news today

[The_Nation @The_Nation]

Govt orders to shut down Karachi Zoo permanently
https://t.co/00pGsSLPcL
#Govt #Karachi #zoo

[Fariq Riaz Baloch @FariqBaloch]

Karwaan sung by Nadir Aslam Baloch for Nako (web series) #BreakingNews #Sudan #nako #Balochistan

[رابعہ نذر @Rabiyanazar_]

کم ظرف دشمن خدا دشمن کو بھی نہ دے۰🔥 پری زاد

[Fariq Riaz Baloch @FariqBaloch]

https://t.co/gEnkUXkFzN

[jami azad🇵🇸🇲🇽🇮🇪 🇪🇸 @Jamiazad1]

Sent it to all Pakistan film producers association! Plz tag PEMRA to ban #faisalqureshi #blasphemy @dawn_com @ExpressNewsPK

[Fariq Riaz Baloch @FariqBaloch]

Happy birthday shaista dear may you live long

[Shaista Sanam @shaistasanam5]

God has given me another year to live, laugh and love that is the best thing I could receive.
Happy Birthday to me 🌸

[Fariq Riaz Baloch @FariqBaloch]

@mthewaseem Thanks 😊

[Fariq Riaz Baloch @FariqBaloch]

Thanks 🙏

[Fariq Riaz Baloch @FariqBaloch]

Disturbing and disgusting #NabeelGabol

[Mehrub Awan @mehrubawan]

Shehzad Ghias: "... yeh koi kahawat nai hai sir..."

Nabeel Gabol: "hai.... hai"

Gabol Saab yeh kahawat kahan parhi thi ap ney sanu v dasso...