QUETTA, BALOCHISTAN: Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) central leader Dr. Sabiha Baloch has strongly condemned the killing of prominent Brahui language writer, poet and educator Professor Ghamkhawar Hayat in Noshki, describing the act as state-sponsored barbarism aimed at destroying Baloch identity, language and intellectual consciousness.
Speaking out against the killing, Dr. Sabiha Baloch said that the murder of Professor Ghamkhawar Hayat at the hands of what she termed state death squads is the clearest expression of institutional hatred directed not only against the Baloch people but against their culture, language and collective awareness.
“The Brahui language, which UNESCO declared an endangered language years ago, has been kept alive through the collective literary and intellectual struggle of writers and educators like Ghulam Hussain Hayat,” she said. “Attempting to silence such voices through death squads is extremely savage and an act of pure barbarism.”
A Pattern of Targeting Baloch Intellectuals
Dr. Sabiha Baloch said the state’s deliberate policy of eliminating Baloch teachers, writers and intellectuals is not new and has continued uninterrupted for several decades.
“The killing of a teacher or a writer is not merely the elimination of one individual,” she said. “It is a direct attack on knowledge, consciousness and literature. Such wounds live on in the memory of society and reach future generations through the lessons of teachers and the scholarly contributions of writers.”
She added that it is precisely these memories that deepen the spirit of hatred against oppression and strengthen the resolve of resistance among the Baloch people
Dr. Sabiha Baloch also drew on her own painful personal experience, saying that the martyrdom of her own teacher, Professor Razaq Zehri, continues to remind her how deeply hostile the state and its policies are toward enlightened and conscious members of Baloch society.
“This state and its policies target the most aware and educated individuals of our society, not for any crime but purely to protect its own ego and the continuity of its power,” she said.
“They Failed to Erase Him from Memory”
Despite the killing, Dr. Sabiha Baloch said the state has failed in its ultimate objective of erasing Professor Hayat from the pages of history and from the public memory of the Baloch people.
“Perhaps today the state is patting the backs of its death squads, believing that his voice has been permanently silenced,” she said. “But the truth is that they have failed. His intellectual services and scholarly struggle will live on not in hundreds but in thousands of hearts.”
She warned that what such brutal state actions generate among the people is not fear or submission, but pure and deepening resistance.
