By Shireen Gul QUETTA: Balochistan Government had unveiled Rs 215 billion deficit budget with minimum available details about the Provincial Budget, as the budget documents were denied to the Media considering it secret from the people and media for the second consecutive fiscal year. The media is reporting the Provincial Budget from the speech of the Adviser to the Chief ...

Chairman of PTI and the main opposition figure in Pakistan, Imran Khan, has demanded a complete audit of 2013 general elections. Previously, he was demanding audit of votes in four national assembly constituencies only. Imran Khan has cited the example of Afghanistan while making the demand of full-fledged election audit. Last general elections have been controversial from the outset. The ...

By Mir  Behram Baloch According to Akbar Hussain Durrani, the Home Secretary Balochistan, a report by the judicial commission probing mass grave incidents in Balochistan’s Khuzdar districts has been submitted. The head of commission Justice Noor Muhammad Muskanzai submitted the report, containing statements from 57 individuals. This commission was formed soon after when in late January 2014, a shepherd had spotted a ...

By Asad Hashim  Islamabad, Pakistan – Sitting in a tent outside the Islamabad Press Club, in the baking heat of the Punjab summer, Zerjan Baloch awaits justice. Not that she expects to receive it, she says. On March 18, witnesses said a group of armed men in paramilitary uniforms and others in plainclothes apprehended Zahid Baloch, Zerjan’s husband, in the southwestern city ...

Quetta: The administration of University of Balochistan has increased tuition fees and hostel fees for the students. This has created uproar and resentment against the university administration among the students. After the increase the Fee of M.Phil is 150,000, PhD 200,000, Examinations Fee of M.A 10,000, Examination Fee of B.Ed 10,500, Examination fee of B.A 5000. The fee for issuance ...

Quetta: BNP-Awami carried out a candlelight vigil against closure of schools in Panjgur. Private schools in Panjgur were closed after facing serious threats from an unknown extremist organization. The participants of the vigil said that all girls and private school are closed in Panjgur of last two month. Government has failed to take any action to solve this grave crisis, ...

By Sherry Ricchiardi The tall, lanky reporter brushed away tears as he described the mangled bodies and anguished cries for help.  Shell-shocked survivors wandered aimlessly in the rubble left in the wake of a suicide bombing. Minutes after medics, police and the media rushed to the scene, a second explosion shook the neighborhood.  The reporter watched in stunned silence as ...

By Adnan Aamir Balochistan is the most ignored province of Pakistan in every walk of life. It grabs media attention mostly on those issues which are important for the ruling elite of Pakistan. Such issues range from the appointment of Arsalan Iftikhar at an important position to the installation of coal fired power plants in Balochistan that will produce electricity ...

By Aziz Ullah Kakar Since the end of Cold War, countless changes have transpired leading to transformation of landscape at global and regional levels. The disintegration of USSR was a huge blow to the leftist discourse throughout the world, weakening extensively revolutionary and anti-status quo passions among the people. In this sort of society where we live in, it’s thoroughly ...

By Rahimullah Yusufzai As someone who was uncompromising in his views and steadfast in his outlook, Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri would not have liked a state-owned plane sent by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to fly his body from Karachi to Quetta for burial. Also, he may not have wanted to be buried in New Kahan, the settlement for the displaced ...