QUETTA: Baloch Republican Party strongly has condemned the recent acid attacks in Quetta and Mastung where six Baloch women were targeted and wounded within 24 hours. BRP’s spokesperson in the issued statement has strongly condemned recent acid attacks in Quetta and Mastung and said that women had a very honorable status in the Baloch society and it is against Baloch ...

Editorial  The Express Tribune The spraying of acid on four women at a bazaar on the outskirts of Quetta on July 21, followed by a similar one on two women in Mastung, did not fit the usual profile. Acid attacks, the number of which has been rising in the country are generally intended to settle a personal dispute or some ...

Editorial Daily Times Fundamentalist vigilantes have once again taken to their old practice of forcing women to stay at home and remind them that if they ever have to venture out, it should not be without a male relative. This group of psychopaths typically hibernates throughout the year and suddenly becomes active when Eid arrives, using it as a convenient ...

By Shehzad Qaisar   According to CIA World Fact Book “Pakistan remains stuck in a low-income, low-growth trap, with growth averaging about 3.5% per year from 2008 to 2013 which was Ex-President Asif Ali Zardari regime in Pakistan. Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz government inherited many challenges to must address long standing issues related to government revenues and energy production in ...

QUETTA: A man was shot dead while another sustained bullet injuries in labor colony area of eastern by-pass satellite town on Tuesday.  According to satellite town police, unknown armed men, riding a motorbike, sprayed bullets on a vehicle and fled from the crime scene.  As result of firing, a person namely Khadim Hussain and his son Zafar Hussain sustained injuries and ...

By Safiullah Shahwani QUETTA: Two young age sisters came under acid attack on Tuesday in district Mastung, sending alarm bells among the masses as the acid attacks are taking as an organized attempt to scare women inside homes in Balochistan. 4 women were doused with acid on Monday in the provincial capital and were virtually defaced for their simple crime ...

QUETTA: Unknown armed men threw acid on 4 women in the suburbs of the provincial capital which left the victims’ hands and faces burnt severely, on Monday. According to the Sariab Police, the victimized women were returning their homes at noon after visiting a shopping centre for their Eid shopping in Birave area of Killi Kamalu, a suburb of the provincial capital, when ...

QUETTA: A driver was killed and many others were injured when unknown armed men opened gunfire on gas tankers, in Nushki area of Balochistan on Monday. According to the details, 5 tankers were en route from Taftan to Quetta when unknown armed men descended from nearby mountains in Sher Jan Agha area of Nushki and opened firing on them. As a ...

QUETTA: Home Secretary Balochistan, Akbar Hussain Durrani said that article 144 would be imposed for a day in the city to ensure peace on the eve of Youm-i-Ali in the provincial capital. According to the Home Secretary Balochistan “The  government has decided to impose a ban on pillion riding on the eve of Youm-i-Ali in the provincial capital.However, except Quetta, there would be ...

QUETTA: At least four were killed and 26 persons were injured including five Frontier Corps (FC) personnel in Balochistan’s restive Khuzdar city on Saturday. According to the police sources, the militants targeted the vehicle of security forces through an improvised explosive device injuring 26 in Seerat Chowk area of Khuzdar. “The vehicle of security forces slightly damaged in the attack ...