By Zahir Barketullah A free media or press is one of the major mechanisms of democracy, still a number of democratic countries have not been successful in authorizing free press. Countless journalists have been the targets of serious threats where as a number of them have been assassinated in different countries. That is the reason, why those countries have been ...

 By Jeeyand Kashif Sajidi The fifth insurgency of Balochistan which started in 2006 in the ground of Dera Bugti has now spread in every nook and corner of the province. For eight long years, security forces have failed to crush Baloch militants. The question is why writ of government is declining and power of these insurgents is rising and more ...

By Zia Baloch A neonatal, child soon after birth, observes development in every aspect of his/her personality. Sometimes children experiences greater physical development than psychosocial development. In other cases, some infants have well developed brains but limited physical growth. In any case such, children are called abnormal. It is a depressing fact that our society behaves like an abnormal child. ...

By Zareef Gul Baloch On February 7, 2014, National Assembly of Pakistan approved a resolution of Pakistan Protection Ordinance with the glaring approval of The President Manmoon Hussain.  Pakistan Protection Ordinance aims to sum up all the peace-terminating elements, as the foes of the country. Furthermore, The PPO document also brings the protection of its masses’ lives into the consideration ...

Women bear almost all responsibility for meeting basic needs of the family, yet are systematically denied the resources, information and freedom of action they need to fulfill this responsibility. The vast majority of the world’s poor are women. Two of the world’s illiterate population is female. Of the millions of school age children are not enrolled in school, the majority are girls. And today, ...

According to the leaders of Baloch Students Organization-Azad, the Chairman of the organization Zahid Baloch was picked up in Quetta on March 18.  The Baloch students have expressed serious concern about the well-being of Zahid Baloch and fear of his extra judicially murder. Lateef Johar, one of the Central Committee Members of BSO-Azad on April 22, announced “Hunger Strike Till ...

For the past two weeks, 23-year-old Latif Johar has refused to eat in protest against the disappearance of his comrade, Zahid Baloch, one of at least hundreds of ethnic Baloch forcibly disappeared by Pakistani intelligence agencies. Johar, increasingly frail, is now hooked up to a drip at the open-air protest camp for missing persons in Pakistan’s metropolis, Karachi. The hunger ...

QUETTA: In its forthcoming budget for FY2014-2015, Balochistan must introduce structural changes in developmental planning and resource allocation with increased focus on communication infrastructures, education, health and water management — incrementally transforming Balochistan from a pastoral economy to knowledge and natural resource-based economy.  It was also reiterated that the incumbent coalition government of Balochistan needs to develop a comprehensive strategy to ...

QUETTA: Speakers at a seminar revealed that the mother mortality ratio (MMR) in Balochistan is as high as 785, whereas the neonatal mortality ratio stands at 63, and the mortality rate of children up to five years of age is 111. “The cause of high mortality rate in children and mothers is due to lack of trained health care providers,” ...

PANJGOUR: Frontier Corps (FC) Balochistan has claimed to have killed ten alleged Baloch militants in mountainous area of Panjgour, bordering Iran, in a predawn targeted operation on Monday. According to a statement issued by FC three security personnel also sustained injuries in the operation which was carried out by Panjgour Rifle, Awaran Malisia and personnel of Special Force Wing. “Helicopter used ...