By Sanaullah Baloch Over the years, the ruling elite has been polluting the public mind with baseless assumptions and storylines regarding Balochistan. This leaves little room for logical debate on the province and on the appalling socio-economic and political realities that have resulted in the Baloch people’s hostility to the state system. Despite massive media outreach and the Internet revolution, ...

  Quetta: Acting on the directives of the Balochistan High Court, police on Friday registered cases against five armed private guards of senior Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nawab Sanaullah Zehri for entering the Balochistan Assembly premises forcefully with weapons a day earlier. Armed guards of MPA Nawaz Zehri had clashed with police while forcing their way inside ...

  Quetta: The abduct Kill and dump of Baloch continues, three more bullet- riddled dead bodies of Baloch missing persons have been recovered. The dead bodies were identified as Ejaz Baloch, Hamal  Bugti and Whaid Bugti . According to the sources Ejaz Baloch’s  bullet-riddled and tortured dead body was found from Mangopir area of Karachi last night, whereas,  Hamal   Bugi,82, ...

Quetta: Seventeen districts of Balochistan plunged into darkness on Thursday night when unidentified people blew up four power pylons in Bibi Nani area of Mach district of Bolan. While talking to media QESCO spokesman Mohammad Afzal said that unidentified persons blew up four power pylons, two of 220kV and two of 132 kV, in Bibi Nani. The electricity supply to ...

By Simon Davies   A senior Pakistan government official has told the High Court of Lahore that Facebook has entered into a covert working relationship with national authorities to censor online content. The admission was made earlier this month during a hearing of public interest claims brought by Bytes for All Pakistan (B4A) against the government’s policy of widespread online ...

  Quetta: Writ of the Government implemented In Balochistan  as Chief Minister Balochistan, Dr. Malik Baloch suspended the services of Superintendent Police City Samiullah Soomro after a clash between personal guards of senior MPA Sardar Sanaullah Zehri and policemen at the entrance of the Balochistan Assembly on Thursday from entering into Balochistan Assembly. According to the details police stopped private ...

After being elected as the Chief Minister of Balochistan, Dr Abdul Malik had made an offer for talks with the Baloch militants, sectarian groups and others for talks restoring traditional peace and amity in Balochistan. Similar offer was made by the Federal Interior Minister but with certain conditions. However, Dr Malik did not impose any condition knowing the ground realities ...

  A War Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh has handed a 90 year old sentence to 91 year old Jama’at-e-Islami leader Professor Ghulam Azam for war-crimes the court said were committed in league with Pakistan military in the war of 1971. Naturally the reason why he was not given the death sentence was because of his age and health but the ...

The tragedies — and bodies — just seem to keep piling up in the restive province of Balochistan, which is now undergoing a bloody crusade of sectarian cleansing. Again the Hazara Shias of Quetta have been victimized in a target killing in which four Hazaras have been killed and two passersby have been seriously injured. Gunmen on a motorcycle laden ...

By  Lal Khan At the start of the talks during his recent visit to China, Pakistan’s premier Nawaz Sharif told the Chinese prime minister, Li Keqiang, what has become a traditional cliché with the Pakistani diplomatic policy, “Let me tell you very candidly and very sincerely that what I am witnessing here on my visit to Beijing, it reminds me ...