Kalat: The performance of HPO Technical and Educational Centre (HPO-Tec) is commendable and initiatives taken by HPO collaborated with NAVTTC for skills development possibly will help in poverty alleviation. These comments were made by district heads of different government departments at tool kit and sewing machines distribution ceremony on Friday, 22 January 2016.  A tool kit distribution ceremony was organized for the ...

By Yousaf Ajab Baloch The recent inauguration of groundbreaking projects of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in Balochistan by Prime Minister of Pakistan and the severe crisis of water in Gwadar and lack of   basic facilities of life mirror a very pathetic state of Baloch as well as the systemized discrimination of Islamabad against Balochistan lasting for decades. Recently, while addressing at ...

Quetta: No drinking water in Gwadar should open the eyes of rulers who are making claims that development of Gawader is economic and prosperity of Balochistan. This was stated by president Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Balochistan and former provincial minister Muhmmad Sadiq Umarni while speaking with journalists who met him under the leadership of  Ayub   Bhutto a former president of ...

Apart from number of reasons, assaults on Polio teams and their escorts has become the chief cause making Polio unbeatable in Pakistan. The religious militants have started a war against this noble cause and till today dozens of precious lives have been lost. Recently, once again Balochistan shocked when a suicide attack close to a polio vaccination center in capital ...

Quetta: Unidentified assailants have shot dead a high profile Afghan Taliban commander in Balochistan, two Taliban officials claimed on Friday. Molvi Muhammad Alam, a senior   commander to Taliban supreme Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, was shot dead Thursday evening in Kuchlak area, some 25 Kilometrts from Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan. Taliban leaders told one of the national newspapers on condition ...

Mukhtiar Ahmed Qadri Khaliq Abad : At least one person killed and 15 others sustained injures   on Thursday  morning when a passenger coach collided head-on with a trailer on the Quetta-Karachi RCD Highway in the Khaliq Abad Mangocher area of Kalat district.  According to the Levies officials the passenger coach was going to Quetta from Karachi this morning.  It met ...

Interview by Yousaf Ajab Baloch Gul Khan Naseer is a Ph.D. scholar; doing is Ph.D. in Development Studies. He holds Masters degree in Social Work and Rural Development and has been working as a development professional and human rights activist for last 15 year in different parts of the country and posses a rich experience. He is the winner of ...

Quetta: Young Urdu poetess and fiction writer Amrit Murad died of Cancer today morning in Quetta. Shaida Jabeen, known as Amrit  Murad was recently hospitalized at Bolan Medical Complex Hospital (BMCH) at Oncology department. Amrit was wife of well-known Urdu and Brahui Poet Afzal Murad, Director Academy Adbiaat  Balochistan. She was enrolled as M.Phil scholar at Urdu department, University of ...

Quetta:   Approximately 463 people from Balochistan forcefully disappeared while 157 mutilated bodies were found in 2015 from Balochistan, Chairperson of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) Nasrullah Baloch along with the family members of missing persons alleged while presiding conference here in Quetta Press Club on Friday. They said that according to the relatives of missing persons, Human Rights Organizations ...

Kalat: In the acute shortage of electricity and suspension of natural gas in Kalat city the people have been shivering in sub-zero weather as gas supplies decreased with falling temperature. According to the details Kalat,one of the historic cities of Balochistan, 136 Km away from Quetta, has been witnessing  low gas pressure for the last couple of months, however, the  acute ...