By Malik Siraj Akbar While Pakistan’s federal government continues to give in to the Taliban pressure, women and school children in one small Pakistan-Iran border town in southwestern Balochistan province are offering unprecedented resistance against calls by Islamic extremists to shut down girls’ schools. Pakistan has featured in the recent times in the western media for attacks on girls’ education, destruction of schools and ...

By Hina Baloch Wearing her traditional Balochi dress, Rabia stood tall with great poise and confidence, in a hall filled with teachers and students, at a local high school in Richmond, Virginia. This was her twelfth presentation in one week and, by now, she was visibly confident in speaking to a foreign audience in her Balochi-accented English. Rabia spoke about ...

QUETTA: Chief Minister Balochistan, Dr Abdul Malik Baloch has pledged that each penny of resources would be spent for the education of the children. “We fully support the policies of Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif over good governance and against extremism,” he stated this while addressing to an event of “Prime Minister’s Free Reimbursement Programme” that held at Governor’s House here on Wednesday. ...

By Changiz Baluch  My hometown Panjgur in Pakistan’s Balochistan province was once among the most educated towns in Balochistan. Now it is terrorized by a radical armed group called Tanzeem-ul-Islam-ul-Furqanopposing girls education in the district. On April 25, a letter from the group circulated in Panjgur warning all the private schools to stop Western education, which the terrorists claimed to ...

By Bahram Sayad, Turbat Though Balochistan is the richest province of Pakistan since it contains mineral resources in the shape of marble, coal, oil, gold copper, natural gas and a 750 km long coastal build but still the province is deprived of  supports from all types of social, economic and political crisis. The incidence of poverty is higher than anywhere ...

QUETTA: Chief Minister Balochistan, Dr Abdul Malik Baloch has said that up-coming budget would be prepared after thorough consultation and collaboration of coalition partners and political parties. “Law and order, education, health, agriculture, irrigation, livestock and fisheries would be given more priority in the budget 2014-15,” he expressed these views while chairing the cabinet meeting at Chief Minister’s Secretariat here on ...

By Jeeyand Kashif Sajidi The Indian election of 2014 has astounded many. It was not surprising that BJP defeated congress, experts long before elections predicted that this time it will be BJP sarkar and Narendra Modi who will be the next Prime Minister. The surprise was the clean sweep of BJP. It is the worst defeat congress ever had its ...

Interviewed by Zareef Gul Baloch With reference to the ‘Hunger Strike Till Death’ of Latif Johar, a BSO-A student, in front of the Karachi Press Club, who has been on hunger strike for the safe recovery of his leader for more than 27 days, has plaintively expressed his grievances with our correspondent over the enforced abduction of his Leader, Zahid ...

By Hassaan Fazal When I first heard that the private institutions in Panjgur are being compelled by an organization named “Tanzeem-ul-Islami Furqan” to abandon the education of girls. My mind reminded me of a Tibetian proverb which says that, “A child without education is like a bird without wings.”  When the recent mishaps witnessed in Panjgur are brought under the ...

By Marium Chaudhry  There is a famous — probably the most famous — quote in relation to journalism written on a wall in Carroll Hall, the home of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I would stare at it a few times while waiting for my class to begin but ...