Out Caster

I belong to undeveloped small city of Pakistan Quetta having big hopes and dreams. My Father managed to get me the best education till school and then my father retired and from lavished life we ended up in having financial constraints and he couldn’t afford to educate me any more. My elder sisters paid for my education till a level after that I got a job my self, continued my education completed my masters in journalism recently with distinction.

The present situation in my province Balochistan is a conflict between Baloch nationalists and the Government of Pakistan over Balochistan, the country's largest province is politically unstable there is a combat going on. There are different agitator parties which are the formed by the Baloch locals of the place and consider the non “Blaochs” as settlers. There are massive target killings, bomb blast terror,mutilated corpses bearing the signs of torture keep turning up all over Balochistan especially in Quetta it is at extreme living in such an environment knowing that i ll be killed some day brutally is the thought I go out everyday with.

In the prevailing situation my family was reluctant for me to go to university. I was always terrified and confused when I was in university I went to a famous local NGO for a job interview and I was asked if I was a settler and didn’t get the job because I was not a Baloch. This fear and complex of not being a Baloch tainted my personality Ii always found me unfit and out caster till one day my favorite female teacher Proffesor Nazima Talib was killed because she was a non local it changed my life completely. That was it I decided I will fight my fears and will never be petrified again I ll come out and be something and speak for the brutalities in my province. I was not allowed to go to uni any more but I studied at home harder I joined university later completed my education and got 2nd position in journalism in all over Balochistan.

Majority of my class mates applied for scholarships and some lucky ones got them and went abroad i cannot apply due to my family responsibilities a friend of mine introduced me about pulse wire and I joined it. I have learned a lot in pulse wire and it will improve my knowledge and it will quench my thirst to be a better journalist and help me being part of the world not an “out caster”.