PISHIN: At least four miners died of falling boulders in a chromite mine in Pishin district of Balochistan, media reported on Monday. According to the details   miners were working in the mine when the boulders fall in the chromite mine in Pishin district. The falling land mass has caused  death of four miners, while several others feared to be trapped ...

  QUETTA: As many as seventeen security personnel were wounded in a roadside bomb blast in Sibi district while two people, including a policeman and woman were killed in Quetta and Jaffarabad Districts of Balochistan, on Monday.   According to police, a convoy of security forces was heading towards Kohlu district from Sibi when it was attacked with explosives in ...

QUETTA: The shrine of great Balochi Sufi poet of Balochistan, Mast Twakali, was torched by unidentified people in Kohlu district, some 220km away from the provincial capital Quetta. According to local officials, the incident occurred a couple of days back when some unknown people barged into the shrine of Mast Twakali in Mawand area of Kohlu district in the early ...

QUETTA: Unidentified armed men killed two persons and torched a private container in Dhadar area of Bolan district, some 70 kilometers southeast of Quetta, on Sunday. Balochistan Levies sources said that a private container of Afghan trade was heading towards Afghanistan from Karachi when armed men intercepted container on gunpoint at Dhadar area and opened indiscriminate fire. Resultantly, two occupants driver ...

QUETTA: Over 13 people, including six alleged militants, women and children were killed in an exchange of firing between armed men and security forces, in Jaffarabad district of Balochistan, on Sunday morning. According to the sources, armed men forcibly entered the local Wadira Ghazi Khan Mahrata Bugti’s house located in Mousiani Goth area of Jaffarabad and opened indiscriminate fire on inmates. Resultantly, ...

Editorial Dawn.com THE discovery of mass graves in the restive Khuzdar district of Balochistan late last month opened an ugly new chapter in a long-running and sordid tale. With a Supreme Court-mandated inquiry committee to present its findings at the next hearing in Islamabad on March 7, the details are still quite scarce. Whose bodies were found and how they ...

Within a week after the election of a new president for the Balochistan Union of Journalists (B.U.J.), the largest representative organization of journalists in the province, a journalist and his driver were shot dead in Balochistan’s Jaffarabad District. Mohammad Afzal Khawaja, a reporter for Daily Balochistan Times (English) and its sister publication in Urdu, Zamana, was killed by unknown armed ...

QUETTA: In reaction to nonpayment of salary of last five months, the lady health workers (LHWs) have announced to boycott the anti-polio campaign in Balochistan including Quetta scheduled to start from Monday (tomorrow).      The lady health workers also staged a protest demonstration in Civil Hospital Quetta on Saturday and demanded the government to immediately pay them the due remuneration. Published ...

By Mariyam Mohammed Suleman  The two-day visit of Gwadar this week by the Chief Minister of Balochistan Dr Adbul Malik Baloch, brought a lot of expectations for the suffering inhabitants of the region. Specifically for the fishermen who have been troubled with the issue of the illegal trawlers from Sindh for over ten years now. However the previous dictator as ...

Quetta: At least two participants injured when a truck hit marchers of the long march at Renala Khurd area between Radha and Okara on Saturday. According to the details participants of the long march for  the safe release of Baloch missing persons was on its way   at Renala Khurd area of Punjab province when a  truck hit marchers of the ...