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Yearly Archives: 2016

Letter: Cancer Hospital Needed in Balochistan

Baluchistan is the richest province when it comes to the natural resources that it possesses. But, unluckily, from health to education and to other socio-economic related needs it has invariably been deprived of such requisites. Ruefully, for the last one and a half decade the number of cancer-related disease (such as, blood cancer, skin or mouth cancer etc.) are occurring ...

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Letter: Khuzdar Medical College

The desire to do MBBS for a student pertaining to Balochistan is far beyond the approach and mostly a distant dream. Because, only around 158 candidates (according to the admission ratio of BMC) from tens of thousands of candidates throughout the province can fulfill their dreams annually and the rest of the others’ dreams don’t come true. The reason behind ...

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Raheela Hameed Durrani assumes charge of acting governor of Balochistan

Quetta: Balochistan Assembly Speaker Raheela Hameed Khan Durrani assumed the charge of acting governor of Balochistan on Tuesday as the Governor Muhammad Khan Achakzai left for China on a 10-day official visit. Raheela Hameed Durrani is the first woman to take the charge of the acting governor of Balochistan. She is also the first woman speaker of the provincial assembly ...

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Activism in Pakistan falls Short

By: Shah Meer Baloch A few days ago, a renowned activist friend of mine who is in the US these days laughingly commented on Facebook that no suicide bomber would ever think of detonating in Lasbela, Balochistan because it is hot as hell there. No bomber is mad enough to kill himself in such scorching heat. Alas, he was proven ...

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Powerless Local Government System in Balochistan

By: Javed Siddique The local government in Balochistan is deprived of its rights. After the passage of three and half years, yet the provincial government is not delegated power to the grass-root level. If the government was not sincere to share powers why it conducted local bodies’ elections in the province? Dr Malik’s government loudly claimed to be the first ...

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Letter: University Road needs to be reconstructed

Being a student of Karachi University, I urge the authorities concerned to kindly re-construct the University road, which is in a deteriorated situation. The road from Safoora Chorangi to Samama is filled with wholes at many places which can cause in deadliest road accidents. Besides this, due to its crumbled position it triggers traffic jams and most of the students, ...

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Lok Virsa discovers Folk Child Troupe to perform at the Faiz International Festival

Islamabad: Lok Virsa has newly discovered Folk Child Troupe, Young Child artists who will also perform at the Faiz International Festival 2016. Executive Director Lok Virsa Fauzia Saeed said that one of the mandates of Lok Virsa was to discover new artists and promote them into the mainstream society. “The Institute proudly presented the discovery of new in the past ...

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Letter: CPEC and Balochistan

There are people who call China Pakistan Economic Corridor CPEC a game-changer or fate-changer but as long as Balochistan and its people are concerned, one must think about many aspects of it. Because, the core destination of CPEC is Gwadar which is in Balochista but the whole province is being neglected when it comes to the projects, share in the ...

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Letter:  Passport office in Awaran

It is appreciated that the government of Balochistan established passport office in Awaran. Unfortunately, the office remains closed in absence of the employees and it  results difficulties in the lives of the residents of the area. High poverty doesn’t let the people to afford the expenses to go to   Turbat. I request the government of Balochistan to take serious action ...

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Hub: 62 killed, 95 injured in an explosion at the Shah Norani Shrine

By: Mehboob Shahwani Hub: At least 62 people were killed and more than 95 have been injured in a huge blast in the premises of the Shah Noorani shrine in Khuzdar district on Saturday evening. Sources told that explosion has resulted death of 62 people who include women and children. More than 500 people were in the shrine at the time of ...

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