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Mortality rate of children under five is alarming: Secretary Health Balochsitan

QUETTA:  Mortality rate of the under-five age group children in Balochistan is alarming and therefore parents should be mindful of vaccinating their children against nine major diseases as a large number of children each year of preventable diseases in the province.    This was told by the Arshad Hussian Bugti Secretary Health Balochsitan during a seminar jointly organized by the ...

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Illegal netting dwindles Export of quality fish from Balochistan: Chief Minister’s Policy Reform Unit

QUETTA: The dwindling ratio of Export of quality fish from Balochistan coast is because of illegal netting as fishermen use Mash net for fishing.  This was pointed out during a round table conference that held Gwadar the other day on the subject of “Issues in Fisheries and Coastal Area Development in Balochistan, organized by Chief Minister’s Policy Reform Unit, Strengthening Participatory ...

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Missing BSO Azad’s Chairman

By Naaz Baloch BSO-Azad a Baloch Student Organization believes in democracy and toils in a peace and fair means,  has been confronting  the worst atrocities currently.  The organization has raised a voice for the poverty-stricken people of the wealthy land known as Baluchistan. On daily bases according to VBMP’ chairman a Baloch is being abducted and slain which is utterly ...

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Editorial: Attack on Hamid Mir, A heavy Price for Speaking Truth

Hamid Mir, a prominent Journalist was shot and seriously injured in an attack by unidentified gunmen in Karachi on Saturday. In a statement read out by his brother on Thursday, senior journalist Hamid Mir said that he faced threats from both state and non-state actors. After the Saturday’s attack Hamid’s brother Amir Mir also blamed one of the security state ...

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CM Balochistan meets Consul General of Japan Mr. Akira Ouchi

QUETTA: Chief Minister Balochistan, Dr Abdul Malik has said that Japan always supported and helped Pakistan on all crucial occasions. “Japan is playing a vital role for the welfare of masses and improvement of different social sectors,” he said, adding that we hope Japan would continue to play its essential role in development of education, health and other sectors. He ...

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Zahid Baloch, the Chairman of BSO-Azad abducted

Karachi: Zahid Kurd Baloch aka Baloch Khan, the chairman of Baloch student organization – Azad has been abducted from Quetta on 18th of March 2014. BSO-Azad’s senior vice chairperson while addressing a press conference has said, Pakistani secret agencies and security forces abducted organization’s Chairman, Zahid Baloch aka Baloch Khan from Quetta on March 18, 2014 at 5pm. Vice Chairperson ...

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Don’t ignore Balochistan, Brahamdagh Bugti urges intl. human rights groups

Geneva: Exiled Baloch leader and President of Baloch Republican Party (BRP) Brahamdagh Bugti has urged international human rights groups not to ignore the worsening situation in Balochistan, the Pakistan‘s largest province. He said incidents of enforced disappearances; torture and killings in Balochistan are on the rise, as security forces have adopted a “pick, kill and dump” policy against educated youth and ...

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Sassiand Punnu: The legendary story of real lovers

By Jameeljansheer Stories of loving couples like Romeo and Juliet, Shireen and Farhad, Laila and Majnun and many others without doubt are always effervescently remembered and the purity of their love with perpetual sensations of their hearts has gained a legendary prestige in our lives. In addition to that, in the world human beings have always enjoyed all the mesmerizing ...

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Attack on Hamid Mir: A Threat to Press freedom

By Mariyam Mohammed Suleman  Once I had an opportunity to visit “Newseum” the Museum of news in Washington DC. There were numerous things to explore, to know and to learn as a student but among all the other interesting objects there, one thing caught my attention “The World Press Freedom Wall”. I was mystified and confused with those colors which ...

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CPJ condemns attack on TV news anchor Hamid Mir

New York, April 19, 2014­–The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the continuing violence directed at journalists in Pakistan. Geo News senior anchor Hamid Mir today was shot three times soon after he and his driver left Karachi’s main airport, according to media reports. The driver was not wounded. “The attack on Hamid Mir is an indicator that the government ...

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