By Anushe Noor Faheem. A tide of protests have swept Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan after threats from shadowy militants forced dozens of private schools in Panjgur, a district in the province, to close their schools.   The warning of “dire consequences” for private schools providing “western education” intimidated at least 35 private schools and 30 English language centers in Panjgur to shut their doors on May 7. Government schools ...

By Khurshid Qazi  Panjgoor,  a backward district of Baluchistan with insufficient amenities of life; however, is ranked as the most literate district of the least developed province and is nothing less than a glooming star in a cluster of a dark sky. Unfortunately, the contemporary upheavals of the district have resulted the closure of 23 private schools including English language ...

By Zareef Gul Baloch  Since the dawn of Baluchistan it has critically been deprived of both male and female education sector and it has been constantly confronting with numerous other impediments before the emergence of this terrorist group, whereas the Baloch have always been secular in terms of giving equally the authority of the attainment of education to their male ...

Issue of missing persons is the most complicated matter of  Balochistan and unfortunately no efforts have been made by the government to resolve it. The chairman of Baloch student organization Azad (BSO-Z) Zahid Baloch, was abducted on 18 March, 2014 from Quetta allegedly by the secret agencies of state. On April 22, 2014 Baloch student organization announced a hunger strike ...

Quetta:Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch visited the camp of BSO-Azad’s outside Karachi Press Club on Wednesday and appealed Lateef Johar to break his ‪Hunger Strike Till Death. Lateef Johar is   one of the Central Committee Members of Baloch Students Organization-Azad, on April 22, he announced “Hunger Strike Till Death” at Karachi Press Club to protest the enforced abduction of Zahid Baloch. Zahid ...

QUETTA: Balochistan government will have to need Rs 17 billion funding to continue its Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI) after withdrawal of GAVI support in June 2015. This was said in Pre-Budget seminar on EPI, Nutrition and Lady Health Workers organized by Save the Children, here on Tuesday. Giving his presentation, EPI Balochistan’s Deputy Coordinator, Dr. Ishaq Panezai said that ...

By: Mir Behram Baloch Quetta: Civil society of Balochistan held a peaceful protest against forceful closure of girls’ Schools in Panjgur at Quetta Press Club today. A large number of  social activists, members of Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) , students, human rights  activists, lawyers, media representatives, political parties and writers participated in the event  and demanded for the protection and promotion ...

By Shoaib Durrazai Boko Haram is basically an Islamic extremist group opposing Western education. They began with activities on a smaller scale which included attacking and then escaping. Majorly affected were clerics. Later the activities grew up into attacks on churches, police, army and political authorities. In its major attacks the UN office and central police were targeted in the ...

Khuzdar : At least eight levies personnel were killed and one levies was injured on Sunday when unidentified armed men opened fire at a check post near Wadh tehsil on the Quetta-Karachi Highway. The attack took place in Wadh area of Balochistan’s Khuzdar district. Assistant commissioner Wadh confirmed deaths of levies personnel. According to initial reports, armed men attacked the ...

By Bahram Baloch Panjgur is known  for being  peaceful and education  lightening  district  of  Baluchistan, however, it  has been  under  the  sufferings  of  opprobrious  problems  of peace  destructions. Before recovering from critical hurdles, it has been made to face forced abandonment of its all private schools after receiving threats by armed group calling itself  Tanzeem-ul-Islam-ul-Furqan. The   threats  given  by  the  ...