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Shah Meer Baloch
Shah Meer Baloch is a freelance journalist from Pakistan.
Shah Meer Baloch is a freelance journalist from Pakistan. His work has been published in The Guardian, The New York Times, LA Times, Deutsche Welle, and Dawn, among other publications. Baloch was formerly a correspondent with Deutsche Welle in Pakistan. He travels across Pakistan for his reporting, writing about humanitarian issues, politics, insurgency, human rights, Pakistan’s foreign relations and religious extremism.
He can be reached at [email protected] and tweets @shahmeeralbalos.
July 08, 2020
Pakistan’s Great Digital Divide
By Shah Meer Baloch
A new reliance on virtual life in the COVID-19 era has laid bare the lack of internet access for much of the country.
April 07, 2020
The Mysterious Disappearance of a Pakistani Journalist in Sweden
By Shah Meer Baloch
“The dead don't haunt me as much as missing do,” Sajid Hussain once told me. Now he’s among the missing himself.
September 18, 2019
Working for the Wealthy, Islamabad’s Poor Struggle to Live
By Shah Meer Baloch and Mashal Baloch
In Islamabad’s irregular settlements, the city’s poor struggle just a stone’s throw from posh bungalows.
August 21, 2019
Islamabad’s Old Books Collection
By Shah Meer Baloch
A bookstore has become a legacy to another time in Pakistan's capital.
June 27, 2019
Pakistan and the Politics of Polio
By Shah Meer Baloch
After each political transition, polio cases spike. This year, that trend seems to be getting worse.
March 25, 2019
Balochistan’s Great Internet Shutdown
By Shah Meer Baloch
For 2 years and counting, Kech district’s mobile internet has been shut off for “security reasons.”
January 29, 2019
Pakistan’s Crumbling Cultural Heritage
By Shah Meer Baloch
Mehrgarh, the site of a precursor to the Indus Valley civilization, is victim to looting, vandalism, and encroachment.
November 16, 2018
Pakistan’s Dark History of Student Extremists
By Shah Meer Baloch
Since the 1970s, political factions in Pakistan have armed students and encouraged them to violence.
November 05, 2018
Return From a Pakistan Dungeon
By Shah Meer Baloch
Thousands of people have been “disappeared” in Pakistan. And for those who reappear, life is never the same.
September 20, 2018
Chitral: A Portrait of Sectarian Tension in Pakistan
By Shah Meer Baloch
Far from the headlines, a district in KP provides worrying evidence of a rise in religious hatred.
April 18, 2018
CPEC’s Environmental Toll
By Shah Meer Baloch
China is bringing coal power to Pakistan, and Pakistanis will pay the environmental price.
March 15, 2018
Saving Pakistan’s Kalasha Community
By Shah Meer Baloch
Caught between the Taliban in Afghanistan and the religious right in Pakistan, this ancient culture is in dire straits.
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