Very encouraging to see.
**Pakistan Sets Up Largest Baluchi Library **
Largest reference library on Baluchi language and culture, co-funded by Iranian Baluchs, was launched in Karachi, capital of Pakistan’s Sind province. Manager of the Seyyed Zohourshah Hashemi Library told IRNA in Chabahar, Sistan-Baluchestan province, that Iranian Baluchs extended support for the library, which was established in an area of 600 square meters with over 5,000 book volumes.
Azim Dehqan added, “The library is aimed to provide university students, schoolchildren and researchers of Baluchi language with references on Baluchi lifestyle and culture in Persian, Baluchi, English, Arabic and Urdu languages.“ Dehqan, an Iranian Baluch residing in Karachi, commended professor Saba Dashtyari and professor Abdolhamid Baluch of Quetta University for their major financial and spiritual contribution to the project.
He noted that more than 30 university instructors, students and pupils, especially Iranian Baluchs living in Pakistan, benefit from reference books available in the library. Seyyed Zohourshah Hashemi is the fifth library on Baluchi language and culture set up in Karachi. Baluch is a nation consisting of 500 tribes, who speak a common language called Baluchi. This language was driven from ancient Indo-Iranian language. Baluch tribesmen live in a vast land called Baluchestan located in eastern part of Asia occupied by three modern countries Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Iranian Baluchs live in southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province with its capital as Zahedan. Pakistani Baluchs mostly live in western province of Baluchistan with Quetta as its center.
http://www.iran-daily.com/1384/2383/html/panorama.htm#s93204
