Shah Meer Baloch

Islamabad

Journalist at Freelance

Pakistan correspondent for @guardian @CheveningFCDO -@LSEnews ’19| [email protected] Retweets aren’t endorsement

Articles

US attack met with panic in Iran

5 days ago | msn.com | William Christou |Shah Meer Baloch |Deepa Parent

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Iranian opposition supporters grapple with US and Israeli regime change plans

1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | William Christou |Deepa Parent |Shah Meer Baloch

Despite a substantial internet blackout, news spread quickly in Iran on Tuesday night: the US was considering joining Israel in its war on Iran. The US president, Donald Trump, wrote on Truth Social: “We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding.
Thousands flee Tehran amid bombardment

1 week ago | msn.com | William Christou |Deepa Parent |Shah Meer Baloch

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‘What if the strikes hit us on the highway?’: Thousands flee Tehran amid bombardment

1 week ago | inkl.com | William Christou |Deepa Parent |Shah Meer Baloch

Veliasr Square in Tehran on 17 June. A resident estimated ‘more than half’ of the city’s population had left, an estimate the Guardian could not verify. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images As Farhad* and his friends left Tehran, they had plenty of time to survey the destruction. Smoke billowed from rooftops and flames flickered behind them as they inched their way through miles-long traffic to escape Israel’s bombardment of Iran’s capital city.
‘There’s a smell of death in the air’: chaos in Tehran as residents try to flee or find shelter

1 week ago | aol.co.uk | Deepa Parent |Shah Meer Baloch |William Christou

It was just past 4pm when Nahid’s* windows began to shake. An Israeli bomb hit a building nearby – she could not see where – and soon her house began to fill up with smoke. It was the third day of Israeli bombing of Iran and the situation in Tehran was just getting worse. “This is a massacre. The blasts haven’t stopped. Children are crying and we fear many civilians have been killed. There’s a smell of death in the air.
‘You worry what’s going to come next’: Iranians brace themselves as war looms

1 week ago | theguardian.com | William Christou |Shah Meer Baloch |Deepa Parent

Despite the strikes earlier in the day, Sahar* and her family decided to take a stroll in one of Tehran’s parks on Friday night, the eve of Eid al-Ghadir, a major Shia holiday. But, instead of the usual festive fireworks, the sky was lit up by bright red anti-aircraft missiles streaking across the horizon. “Seeing Iranian missiles over your heads worries you, you worry what’s going to come next. Will it be a war, destruction?” said Sahar over the phone.
Pakistan sends ‘important signal’ of hope in a gloomy world of pushbacks on women’s rights

1 month ago | theguardian.com | SArah Johnson |Sarah Johnson |Shah Meer Baloch

During last week’s tense debate over whether the Pakistan senate should pass a bill banning child marriage, Naseema Ehsan stood up to speak. “I got married at 13 years old and I want child marriage to be banned,” said the 50-year-old senator. “I was lucky to have good and affluent in-laws but most Pakistani women are not so lucky. Not every child has a supportive husband like me.”When she finished talking, there was applause in the chamber.
Indian troops shoot dead Pakistani man crossing frontier, officials say | India

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Shah Meer Baloch

Indian border troops have shot dead a Pakistani man they say crossed the international frontier and did not stop when challenged. The shooting occurred two weeks after conflict erupted between the two nuclear-armed countries that led to four days of violence and more than 70 people being killed before a ceasefire was agreed.
Indian troops shoot dead Pakistani man crossing frontier, officials say

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Shah Meer Baloch

Indian border troops shot dead a Pakistani man who they said had crossed the international frontier and did not stop when challenged, the force has said. The shooting comes two weeks after India and Pakistan agreed a ceasefire after a four-day conflict, in which more than 70 people were killed in missile, drone and artillery fire.
India and Pakistan both claim victory after ceasefire declared

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Hannah Ellis-Petersen |Shah Meer Baloch |Aakash Hassan

India and Pakistan have both claimed victory after a ceasefire was declared over the weekend, which brought the two nuclear-nations back from the brink of war. After days of escalating clashes that culminated in both sides launching missile and drone strikes on each other’s major military bases – the closest they had come to full-scale war in decades – the ceasefire between India and Pakistan was declared by US President Donald Trump on Saturday evening.