Quetta: A dispute over irrigational water claimed lives of seven people near Balochistan-Punjab Border on Saturday. The belligerent groups belonged from the Koja sub-tribe of Bugti clan and the dispute took place in Barro area of Rajanpur district. According to sources, an armed clash erupted after a dispute on storage of rain water. Seven people lost their lives and four ...

By Haji Mohammad Barech Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif inaugurated Quaid-e-Azam residency at Ziarat on the Birth day of Pakistan – 14 August. This historical place was destroyed and responsibility claimed by Baloch insurgents group in 2013. Likewise, Balochistan faces insurgency in West, South and East. In the same way, unequivocal issue of missing person has also garbled the provincial government ...

Quetta: At least 10 militants were killed and 11 security personnel were injured during the operation early on Friday at Samungli and Khalid airbases in Quetta. The militants had attacked the Samungli and Khalid airbases in Quetta. The security personal have also arrested one injured militant and shifted him to an unknown place for interrogation. The exchange of fire continued ...

By Mariyam Suleman Baloch “Enlighten me with the flames of my youth!” echoed a voice around the mountains of the province forming 43.6% area of the country. The voice travelled from the barren arid deserts to the 760 kilometers long coastline, from the vast plains of scattered population to the mineral rich districts and from a few urban and to ...

By Saher Baloch IT couldn’t be more ironic. As we enter Marri Camp, near Shalkot — an area outside Quetta playing host to an estimated 100,000 members of the Marri tribe — songs lauding the land that is Pakistan start playing on the radio. At a nearby peak, flags installed by the separatists fly high. A feeling of being completely ...

By Shehzad Baloch A few months ago, the director general of public relations (DGPR) in Balochistan issued notices to 135 daily newspapers based in Quetta, seeking detailed information about their employees and all the official equipment they use for publishing papers. Once the data was collated, it was surprising to learn that more than 100 newspapers are published from Quetta ...

Quetta. A complete shutter down   was observed throughout Balochistan on the Independence Day of Pakistan. Baloch Warna Movement (BWM) and other Baloch nationalist organizations had given the call for shutter down   on 14th August, the independence day of Pakistan, According to the details a complete shut off was observed in Mastung ,Kalat, Khuzdar, Kharan, Naal, Wadh, Besema, Noshki, Dalbandain, Panjgoor, ...

By Aziz Ullah Kakar Borderlands of many post-colonial states most frequently pay the price for protecting the centre. They are prima facie kept intentionally for such purposes when required. Nonetheless factual raison d’être for this objective is based more paradoxically on constructing discursively the existence of state as a natural phenomenon. In nitty-gritty while fathoming historically this is not the ...

Quetta: Real Azadi March is happening in Balochistan, said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today, while inaugurating a reconstructed Ziarat Residency. On Independence Day, Nawaz Sharif reached Ziarat accompanied by Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif, Chief Minster Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch, Governor Mohammad Khan Achakzai and politicians, civilian and military officers. Ziarat Residency was destroyed in an attack by ...

Quetta: At least 10 people were injured in a grenade attack at a shop in Satellite Town on Wednesday. According to the police, 10 people were injured when a hand grenade was hurled at a shop selling national flags, badges and pictures in Satellite Town Quetta. Three brothers and a child were among the injured. Security personnel rushed to the ...