Haneef Shareef

Haneef Shareef (حنیف شریف) is a Balochi writer, film director, photographer and medical doctor from Turbat in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. He began his creative career as a short story writer in the 1990s. In 2003, he received his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree from Bolan... Medical College in Quetta. He was a member of the Balochistan Students' Organisation (BSO), and wrote articles and poetry on the social conditions of the people in Balochistan. On November 18, 2005, he was picked up by Frontier Corps officers. After his disappearance, his mother and relatives staged a hunger strike in front of the Karachi Press Club. He was returned home alive after nine months of torture. In 2011, he left Pakistan for Oman. He now lives in exile in Goettingen, Germany, where he is a photographer and runs the YouTube channel Radio Balochistan. As a writer, he has published three collections of short stories, Shapa ke Hour Gwareth (2008), Teeran Dask (2014), and Haneefnaam (2020), as well as one novel, Chegerd Poll enth (2010).

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