Ed Urdu Meaning File 29th Oct 2023

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29th Oct, 2023
EDITORIALS
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police — when Fareed Hussain

Baloch resisted ‫ مزاحمت کی‬and tried
Brute tactics to escape ‫فرار ہونا‬, he was beaten up
‫ مارا پیٹا گیا‬and dragged ‫ گھسیٹ کر‬into
Editorial Published October 29, a private car as security guards
2023 looked on ‫دیکھ رہے تھے‬. This has
sparked mass outrage ‫بڑے پیمانے پر‬
THE state has to abandon ‫ترک کرنا‬ ‫غم و غصہ کو جنم دیا‬, with the Baloch
its absolutist approach (being very Council of PU fearing that he will
strict and not open to other ideas or be implicated ‫ پھنس جائے گا‬in
opinions) towards the Baloch, serious, false charges. Sadly, PU
especially the youth. Its thinly has been the venue for a string of
disguised hostility (pretending to be similar cases. In 2018, Punjab
friendly but actually having police handpicked (used to describe
negative or unfriendly feelings.) for someone who has been carefully
their fundamental freedoms ‫بنیادی‬ chosen for a particular job or
‫ آزادیوں‬has led to a deep shift in the activity) 190 Baloch students
Baloch mindset, leaving the embroiled ‫ الجھ گئے‬in clashes
populace ‫ آبادی‬fearful and alienated. between student groups, who were
Incidents such as the one on Friday, then slapped ‫ الزامات لگائے گئے‬with
where a Baloch student of Punjab anti-terrorism charges. Pakhtun
University was arrested from the students too have faced repeated
gate of the New Campus by police attacks. These assaults ‫ حملے‬are
and men in plain clothes, ‫سادہ لباس‬ tantamount ‫ مترادف‬to ethnic
aggravate ‫ مزید خراب کرنا‬an already discrimination ‫ نسلی امتیاز‬and make
fractured ‫ دراڑ‬relationship between the government’s overtures ‫اقدامات‬
the province and the state. The of peace, such as Balochistan
CCTV footage shows raw brutality caretaker home minister’s claim
(extreme violence or cruelty that is that angry Baloch “should come and
savage and uncontrolled(. by the play their role in the development of
Balochistan”, ring hollow (seems
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insincere, false, or lacking in

authenticity). Published in Dawn, October 29th,
2023
Blind abuse and victimisation of
Baloch youth is hardly the stuff of
applause (something deserving of Gazan apocalypse
praise and admiration from others);
it fuels disenfranchisement ‫حق رائے‬ Editorial Published October 29,
‫ دہی سے محروم ہونا‬and mistrust and 2023
forces people to choose
radicalisation ‫ بنیاد پرستی‬so that WITH Tel Aviv’s troops carrying
many equate identity with separatist out land incursions ‫ دراندازی‬inside
forces. For this to change, the Gaza while its jets mercilessly ‫بے‬
government must overcome an ‫ رحمی سے‬pound the congested Strip,
acute trust deficit ‫شدید اعتماد کا خسارہ‬ ‫ گنجان پٹی‬obliterating ‫ختم کرنے‬
with Balochistan and cease its hospitals, residential buildings and
police state methods. Admittedly, shelters, it is clear that Israel is
the road to consolidation ‫ استحکام‬is attempting to foist ‫ مسلط کرنے‬its
long and splintered (shattered). ‘final solution’ on the Palestinian
However, safeguarding the rights people in the name of going after
and political claims of Baloch and Hamas. Since Oct 7, when Hamas
Pakhtun youth is a good place to staged raids ‫ چھاپے مارے‬inside
start. Their say in development, Israel, over 7,000 Palestinians have
opportunity and policymaking been butchered ‫ قتل کیا گیا ہے‬by
equals that of anyone else. And Israel, nearly half of them children.
traumas must heal (emotional Tel Aviv has shown no mercy, ‫رحم‬
wounds and distressing experiences wiping out ‫ صفایا کرنا‬entire families,
need time and care to recover) or targeting civilian infrastructure, and
Pakistan will continue to pay a cutting off ‫ بند کرنا‬food, water,
heavy price in the shape of communication links, power and
militancy.
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fuel to Gaza — all qualifying as war by Israel long before the latest
crimes. Yet Israel’s powerful hostilities ‫ دشمنی‬broke out. ‫پھیل گئی‬
friends, including US President Joe
Biden, doubt the Palestinian toll; Whatever spin Tel Aviv and its
they believe Israeli accounts that claque ‫ دعوی‬of supporters may be
Tel Aviv did not bomb the Al-Ahli putting on the conflict, people of
Hospital, and that it was a misfired conscience the world over are
Palestinian rocket that caused the demanding an end to the massacre
atrocity. ‫ ظلم‬In fact, it is the blind ‫ قتل عام‬of Palestinians. The majority
support of the West that has of states voted for a Jordanian
emboldened ‫حوصلہ افزائی کی ہے‬ resolution in the UN General
Israel to unleash genocidal ‫نسل کشی‬ Assembly calling for a truce. ‫جنگ‬
‫ کرنے‬force against Palestinian ‫ بندی‬Moreover, hundreds of
civilians, as it knows it will not have thousands have marched in cities as
to pay for its crimes. There is also diverse as London, Sana’a,
disingenuous ‫ بے بنیاد‬framing of the Baghdad and Paris demanding an
conflict by Israel and its friends in end to the slaughter. ‫قتل عام کرنا‬
Western officialdom and media. Many, many Jews have clearly told
The fact is that the Arab-Israeli Israel: ‘not in our name’. The
conflict did not begin with the Middle East stands at the edge of a
Hamas raid. For decades, precipice. If Israel continues its
Palestinians have faced death, slaughter in Gaza, particularly
humiliation and the usurpation through an expanded ground
‫ غصب‬of their ancestral land on a invasion ‫حملہ‬, and if the US-led
daily basis. And, while the targeting West flexes its military muscle in its
of civilians by both sides is support, the whole region can go up
condemnable ‫قابل مذمت‬, Oct 7 was in flames. Tel Aviv needs to
the explosive reaction to years of immediately end its bloody
pent-up (closely confined or held campaign, while all actors must
back) rage, as Gaza’s people had stand down and allow the grieving
been living under a siege enforced people ‫ غمزدہ عوام‬of Gaza to bury
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their dead. The siege must be Pakistan were meeting South Africa
broken so that ample supplies of in Chennai, PCB chief Zaka Ashraf
food, water and medicine can reach met former captain Sarfraz Ahmed
Gaza. But if Israel continues its in Lahore. Rumours swirled ‫افواہیں‬
merciless assault ،‫بے رحمانہ حملہ‬, ‫ پھیل گئیں‬that a change at the top, at
and the West continues to aid it, the least in the Tests, was on the cards.
Middle East will explode, and the It was the sort of messaging that
reverberations (an effect or impact wasn’t needed — certainly not at a
that resembles an echo) will be felt time when the team was facing a
across the world. must-win game against the high-
flying Proteas. With all that
Published in Dawn, October 29th, happening, the ‘cornered tigers’, the
2023 moniker made famous during
Pakistan’s sole ODI World Cup
triumph in 1992, seemed to be
roaring back (to become very
Wrong messaging successful or active again) and
South Africa were choking again. A
Editorial Published October 29, welcome win to restore belief and
2023 revive ‫ زندہ کرنا‬hopes after three
straight losses appeared within
PAKISTAN looked set for a grasp: South Africa had their last
release. Pressure had been pair at the crease and 11 runs were
mounting ‫ دباؤ بڑھ رہا تھا‬since the required to win. Pakistan would
defeat to Afghanistan and the circus have wrapped it up (complete
back home, with the Pakistan something successfully) had the
Cricket Board effectively blaming umpire raised his finger on a loud
the team’s losses at the World Cup shot for an lbw against Tabraiz
on captain Babar Azam and chief Shamsi off Haris Rauf. A review
selector Inzamam-ul-Haq. While showed the ball just about clipping
leg stump. It was agonising. ‫اذیت ناک‬
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Just when Pakistan needed luck, it unorthodox or a threat to society.)

deserted ‫ ویران کر دیا‬them; and when of Babar, Inzamam and the team
their pace options dried up, Keshav management, adding that the
Maharaj swatted away (dismissed) players had given their all. That,
spinner Mohammad Nawaz for the though, hasn’t been enough for a
winning boundary. This time, South majority of former cricketers,
Africa defied their ‘choker’s’ tag experts and fans in this cricket-mad
(proven wrong the belief that they country. Criticism was due, a post-
can’t handle pressure or important mortem of the failure a certainty,
situations). And Pakistan seemed to but PCB’s statement was
have no way back, a spot in the unwarranted ‫— غیر ضروری‬
semis looking like a distant dream. especially with the team, still
‫دور خواب‬ mathematically at least, not out of
the race for the semis.
Pakistan had entered the
tournament as one of the favourites Published in Dawn, October 29th,
to lift the title, but failed to live up 2023
to the billing (to fulfill expectations
or meet a standard). Against South
Africa, the bowlers rediscovered
their spirit, but Pakistan were let
down (fail to support or help
someone as they had hoped or
expected) by their batters, who
failed to achieve a stronger total.
This is the first time they have lost
four straight matches at a World
Cup. Team director Mickey Arthur
warned against a ‘witch-hunt’ (a
campaign directed against a person
or group holding views considered
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Just when Pakistan needed luck, it unorthodox or a threat to society.)

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