Abstract
The purpose of this study is to highlight the role of journalism during the Baloch resistance movement in late 1920s and early 1930s. The paper discusses the journalistic and political contributions of Mir Yousaf Aziz Magsi, Abdul Aziz Kurd and Muhammad Hussain Unqa. These leaders realized the potential and power of press. Along with their political movement against the British rule, they also practiced journalism initiated various newspapers, including Al-Baloch, Trajuman-e-Baloch, Azad, Itehad-e-Balochaan and Balochistan Jadeed. Pamphlets and articles like Shams Gardi and Faryad-eBalochistan were produced criticizing the policies of the British. The British arrested and detained the leaders who published newspapers and wrote against them. The British banned seventeen newspapers of Muhammad Hussain Unqa and imprisoned him for twenty years, four months and eleven days. The findings of the study will contribute to the role played by local press in Baloch resistant movements of that era
Zakir Hussain, Dr. Seemi Naghmana Tahir2, Dr. Abdul Haleem Sadiq, Muhammad Fahim Baloch. (2017) The Role of Press in the Baloch Resistance Movement of 1920s and 1930s, Balochistan Review, Volume 2, Issue 2.
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