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Letter: Cruelty in Syria

The killing of innocent people with chemical weapons in Syria continues. America and Israel continue the inhuman approaches in the area; however, the silence of the UN is an open encouragement to the brutal countries to continue barbarity in Syria by killing the children, women and Youths in a large number. The human rights organizations are urged to be very ...

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Ordinary Baloch: Pawns on the chessboard! 

By:  Masood Hameed Baloch A general hype goes everywhere in Media and to public that Baloch society is more notorious for its tribal and Sardari system. Commonly people label it as tribal mindsets and Baloch politics is always obsessed with the influence of Sardars & Nawabs. Few of  the Sardar-turned- nationalists earned good stature & popularity among their people, but ...

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Letter:  NADRA office Turbat fails to facilitate public

National Database & Registration Authority (NADRA) office is one of the major offices of Turbat where in a day approximately 7 to 8 hundred people including students visit for registration an and receiving their CNICs and B-forms. Furthermore, it detriments to mention that people are facing a large number of  setbacks via disconnected internet, mismanagement, no proper seating, lack of ...

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Astola Island to be country’s first marine protected area: Federal Minister of Climate Change

Gwadar: Federal Minister of Climate Change, Zahid Hamid has said that Astola Island will soon be declared the country’s first ‘Marine’ protected area through absolute consensus among all concerned stakeholders. Talking to media on Tuesday, he said Balochistan and federal governments alongwith Pakistan Navy and local community, as the major stakeholders, have unanimously agreed to get the island notified as ...

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Editorial: ‘Fit for Promotion’

‘For forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is the best,” said Alexandar Pope. Service delivery at Government Departments has always remained a sorry figure. Name a department and you will find miserable tale of inefficiency, lack of good governance, weariness towards work, averseness to punctuality and a psychology of corruption ruling the roost. The mega scandal ...

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Lok Virsa hosts a cultural capacity enhancement symposium

ISLAMABAD:  The National Institute of Folk & Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa), in collaboration with Smithsonian Institution, USA and Interactive Resource Centre (IRC) conducts the first ever “Greatness in Diversity” Festival in Pakistan.  The cultural/curatorial capacity enhancement conference was held in Islamabad on Wednesday 5th of April, 2017. The format was that of a full-day symposium aimed at opinion makers and ...

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Editorial: Population Control in Balochistan

It was to the surprise of everyone that during the routine registration the census team came across a man having as many as 54 children. Abdul Majeed, a resident of Nushki, has married six times and fathers 42 living children while 12 have died. Two of his wives had passed away but he had married two more after their death ...

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Revamping the Agriculture Sector

 By: Najeebullah Khan Tareen In the agrarian society of Pakistan, the agriculture sector is indispensable economic sector of our economy. Significance of this sector is myriad as it provides food for populace, raw material for industrial sector and integral contribution to export of Pakistan.  The Foreign Exchange which is earned from this sector is 43% of total exports of Pakistan. It also ...

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Letter: Land encroachment in Turbat Market

Turbat market is the commercial area of District Kech. The shops remain crowded during the day. Currently, shopkeepers have encroached market and public places. Most of the shopkeepers have increased the sizes of their shops without taking permission from government. A number of hawker-men are found besides the roads, selling, flowers, fruits and vegetables. Because of the land encroachment, the ...

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Letter: Effects of drought in Balochistan

In Balochistan, drought is completely destroying the livestock owned by the people of rural areas. Almost 25 percent of the livestock has already been perished in many districts of the Balochistan. Livestock is the source of the food of the poor people of rural areas, and over 70 percent population’s income is based on livestock. Economic backbone of rural Balochistan ...

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