Adnan Aamir On August 14, 400 former Baloch insurgents surrendered before the provincial government in Quetta. The trend of surrendering started after June 26 this year when the prime minister approved general amnesty for those Baloch insurgents who surrender. On August 6, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif approved the ‘Peaceful Balochistan’ package under which Rs0.5 million to Rs1.5 million will be ...
Read More »Author Archives: Editor
Top 10 Blunders by Dr. Malik Baloch’s Government
Adnan Aamir Since taking power as the Chief Minister of Balochistan, Dr. Malik Baloch and his allies have made a lot of blunders. Following is an attempt to list down the top 10 bloopers of the coalition government of National Party, Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party and PML-N, which is headed by Dr. Malik Baloch. 10) Internship program that never materialized ...
Read More »Letter: Delay in Announcement of F.Sc Result
Intermediate exams by Balochistan Board of Intermediate and Secondary education were conducted in April this year. Almost 5 months have passed and still result has not been announced. Students are anxiously waiting for the results so that they can proceed with their academic career. In meantime admissions in most of colleges and universities of Pakistan have started and Balochistan students ...
Read More »Gwadar Youth Forum Celebrates its Third Anniversary
Barkatullah Baloch Gwadar – 1st September is the day when Gwadar Youth Forum (GYF) came in to being. Three years back from now, on first of September 2012, the dream of an organization like GYF became a reality. The founders of GYF include author, Arif Noor, Ibrahim Faraz and Sabir Hayat. Later a few more hardworking and sincere youth like ...
Read More »Pygmy Jerboa: World’s Tiniest Mouse Found in Balochistan
Qais Baloch Baluchitherium is one of the largest land mammals ever existed, it was discovered by a French paleontologist Jean-Loup Welcomme in Dera Bugti district of Balochistan. Pygmy Jerboa mouse, which is equal to a coin in size, was first discovered by J.A Anderson in Chagai district of Balochistan. Pygmy Jerboa is the tiniest mouse in the world and is ...
Read More »Importance of Sustainable Development for Balochistan
Naila Tasneem This year in September, Sustainable development goals (SDGs) will be replacing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that were put into place by the UN in 1990 and will be expiring by the end of 2015. These targets set by the UN will be affecting the way member states frame their policies and political agendas. It is expected that ...
Read More »Hooliganism of Student’s Organizations
Sami Parvez One of the main reasons for plight of higher educational institutes in Quetta is the hooliganism of Students organizations. Whether these student’s organizations belong to Baloch and Pashtun nationalist parties, mainstream parties or religious parties all of them have contributed in destruction of education, in Quetta in particular and Balochistan in general. Last year two goons of a ...
Read More »How Social Media Affects Us?
Mahmood Ahmadzee Basically social media has played an important role in whole world. Social media has good effects and bad effects and it depends on how we make use of it. Our neighboring country India is advertising the educational websites for their nation but in our country our nation is just spoiling themselves by using Facebook and other restricted sites. ...
Read More »Session Judge Needed In Turbat
Sami Parvez Quetta – Turbat doesn’t have a district and session judge for last one month, learnt Balochistan Point. Aimal Khan Kakar, last District and Session Judge of Kech district passed away last month and since then the portfolio stands vacant. Turbat city is headquarters of Makran division and therefore center of judicial activity but unavailability of top judge has exacerbated the ...
Read More »University of Balochistan Recruitment Crisis
Aziz Ejaz After conducting tests of some vacant positions of the lecturers in beginning of 2015, for different departments, now University of Balochistan (UOB) repeatedly delaying the dates of interview which create a perturbing situation for the students who have been declared successful by National Testing Service (NTS). In the mid of 2014, from the first time after 2008, UOB ...
Read More »