By: Shehryar Lashari Balochistan is the largest province of the country in terms area but despite having immense riches of minerals as well as strategic importance, the infrastructure and human development conditions have been worse. The most terrible aspect of this backwardness has been the state of education. Literacy index speaks of it. Potential of youth goes untapped which makes ...

By: Our Staff Reporter Quetta: Local buses in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan are on strike for the last four consecutive days after they were barred entering their previous routes towards downtown. The strike of local buses that provide transportation facility to approximately half of the city populace, as only affordable source of transportation for the Quettaties within the ...

Quetta: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was in tears during his visit to injured police cadets in Balochistan. “He broke down into tears when he talked about his slain mother Benazir Bhutto.” Bilawal said that he was also a victim of terrorism. “My family and the people of Balochistan share the same pain. I am no ordinary ...

By: Mir Behram Baloch A week long youth capacity building and awareness programs organized by Pakistan – U.S. Alumni Network (PUAN) ended in Dalbandin with an Award distribution ceremony at Press Club Dalbandin. Earlier a two-day workshop for youth on “Role of youth and Sports in creation of a peaceful and drug free society was organized for High School Students ...

By: Hanif Dilmurad Lok Virsa Museum also known as Heritage Museum is located in Islamabad. It is run by the National Institute of Folk & Traditional Heritage. The Museum presents cultural heritage and life of people in Pakistan. The life and culture of different people are exhibited here in statues, pictures, pottery, music and textile work from different parts of ...

By: Sana Samad Once again Quetta became the victim of a terror attack. This time the target was Police Training College. 62 people were killed and around 140 wounded. Once the young cadets had completed their training, they were sent to their home towns but all of a sudden they called back. Now the question rises, why were they called ...

By: Gerry Simpson They say one never forgets a face. One face hundreds of millions of people will never forget is that of 12-year-old Sharbat Gula. Captured by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry in a refugee camp in 1984, her piercing green eyes captivated the world and spotlighted the plight of millions of Afghan refugees in Pakistan who had fled ...

In the latest terrorist attack at Police Training College at least 61 security personnel were killed and more than 165 others were injured as heavily-armed militants wearing suicide vests stormed a police Training College. Home Minister of Balochistan Sarfraz Bugti informed media that three terrorists entered the Police Training College from the rare gate after martyring a watchman and held ...

Once again the eyes turned wet, fathers once again lost their shoulders and hopes of mothers once again seem darkened, when the news spread like a wild fire that Quetta once again hit the nook of terror. The gun men entered the police training centre where the cadets without any imagination ofany incidence were gunned down for no reason. The ...

By: Shereena Qazi The Pakistani city of Quetta, in Balochistan province, is once again in the news for large-scale violence: this time a police training centre has been targeted by fighters who killed at least 60 people, most of them police cadets. The attack late on Monday underlined the precarious security situation in Balochistan, which has witnessed repeated attacks against ...