The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is in  Pakistan to attend Independence Day celebrations, promote education and disaster management as the monsoon season begins. While the Baloch Nationalist and social media activists are asking him to take notice of what they name it ‘Baloch Genocide’.  According to the UN deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey that Ban will meet President Asif ...

Quetta: National Party leader and Member Balochistan Assembly, Mir Muhammad Azim Buledi was found dead at his home, media reported on Tuesday.  According to Commissioner Makran, the elected MPA from PB-49-Kech-II apparently committed suicide by shooting himself. “Buledi’s body was recovered from a house in his hometown Buleda”, he added. Police have launched an investigation. Published in The Balochistan Point ...

Quetta: The former opposition leader in the Balochistan Assembly Advocate Kachkol Ali on Monday appealed to the UN secretary general to take notice of “genocide of the Baloch nation and human rights abuse”. In a statement issued from Oslo, he said that “a human tragedy has occurred in Balochistan… therefore United Nations should take notice of it and take practical ...

Aurangzaib Alamgir Early in 2012, a small group of US congressmen looking for alternatives to the Obama administration’s AfPak policy made recommendations for two changes in the region. The first, that instead of fantasizing about incorporating the Taliban into the Afghan political system the United States ought to rearm the Northern Alliance, had been discussed previously. The second recommendation was ...

Khuzdar: Unidentified armed men  target killed  Rafeeq Sumalani,  a  senior member of Baloch National Movement (BNM) in Naal, Khuzdar district  on Saturday According to the details the Baloch activist Rafeeq Sumalani was on his way to home after Eid greeting  his relatives when unknown motorcyclists opened indiscriminate fire  on him. The Baloch activist succumbed to his injuries on the spot ...

DERA BUGTI: At least two people including a tribal leader a were killed and three wounded in a landmine explosion and subsequent shooting in Dera Bugti Saturday. According to details, a local tribal leader Zeray Khan Bugti’s was killed while two of his guards sustained injuries when his vehicle hit a landmine planted in Patokh area. Sources also added that ...

  By Shezad Baloch On Wednesday night Lyari witnessed the worst terrorist attack in its history. “Tonight there’s going to be a huge crowd,” 17-year old Abdul Basit told his family. “I’ll need to get there early if I’m going to grab the perfect spot to enjoy the final.” With those parting words he headed out to Mir Ghus Baksh ...

Quetta: At least 30 people, including three senior police officials have been killed in a  suspected suicide blast at the funeral of a slain police officer in Quetta and  more than 50 people injured. The injured were shifted to the Civil Hospital and the Combined Military Hospital. Fifteen critically injured are being shifted to Karachi. According to the detail, the ...

By Yousaf Ajab Baloch The illegal detention of people in Pakistan, allegedly by secret agencies collaborating with the security forces, has become an extremely unsettling matter. Due to lack of political will of the establishment, human rights organisations, the judiciary and media have failed to change the mindset of the responsible authorities for the recovery of missing persons. Regardless of ...

Quetta: Unidentified armed men opened fire on police van in killi Almo area of Quetta , The capital city of Balochistan, killing station house officer (SHO) of City police station and injuring six others on Thursday. According to the details  SHO Mohibullah, along with his four children and two other policemen, had left his residence in a police van when ...