Ghulam Mohammad Lalzad Baloch or Lalzad Baloch ( ) is a
Baluchi language
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broadcast journalist, based in Toronto, Canada. He is originally from
Nimroz
Nimruz or Nimroz ( Balochi: ; Dari, Pashto: ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southwestern part of the country. It lies to the east of the Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran and north of Balochistan, Pakistan, also ...
Afghanistan. He was with the Baluchi service of
All India Radio
All India Radio (AIR), also known as Akashvani (), is India's state-owned public broadcasting, public radio broadcaster. Founded in 1936, it operates under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India), Ministry of Information and Broa ...
from 1974 to 2003.
Early life
His attended Farokhi school in
Zaranj
Zaranj ( Persian/Pashto/) is a city in southwestern Afghanistan, which has a population of 160,902 people as of 2015. It is the capital of Nimruz Province and is linked by highways with Lashkargah and Kandahar to the east, Farah to the north an ...
,
Nimroz
Nimruz or Nimroz ( Balochi: ; Dari, Pashto: ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southwestern part of the country. It lies to the east of the Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran and north of Balochistan, Pakistan, also ...
, Noon. He studied law and
political science
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at
Kabul University
Kabul University (KU; ) is one of the major and oldest institutions of higher education in Afghanistan. It is in the 3rd District of the capital Kabul near the Ministry of Higher Education. It was founded in 1931 by King Mohammed Nadir Shah, wh ...
(Department of Justice) and earned a PhD in literature (She'r e Ma'sir e Dari in Afghanistan) from
Jamia Millia Islamia
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University, Delhi.
Career
He joined
Radio Afghanistan as a university student. from 1972 to 1974, he worked with
All India Radio
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's Balochi service from 1974 to 2003. He runs two news services. He also works with
Hamwatan Translation Company.
See also
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Nimruz Province
Nimruz or Nimroz (Balochi language, Balochi: ; Dari, Pashto language, Pashto: ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southwestern part of the country. It lies to the east of the Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran and nor ...
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Baloch people
The Baloch ( ) or Baluch ( ; , plural ) are a nomadic, Pastoralism, pastoral, ethnic group which speaks the Western Iranian, Western Iranic Balochi language and is native to the Balochistan region of South Asia, South and Western Asia, encompas ...
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Balochi language
Balochi (, romanized: ) is a Northwestern Iranian language, spoken primarily in the Balochistan region of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. In addition, there are speakers in Oman, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Turkmenistan, East Afr ...
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Balochi literature
Balochi literature () is literature written in the Balochi languages."
The main Balochi literature is found in poetry, which is purely popular in origin and form
Poetry is by the Baloch people, Baloch regarded as the highest form of literature. ...
References
External links
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Balochi-language writers
Balochi literature
Living people
1951 births
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