Quetta – Ruling parties of Balochistan, National Party (NP) and Pashtunkhaw Milli Awami Party (PKMAP) fared badly in local body re-elections, held on Thursday. Re-elections were conducted in eight districts where elections process couldn’t be completed last month due to lack of quorum. In Zhob district, Sheikh Yousaf Mandokhail of PML-Q was elected as chairman and Qazi Ahmad Khosti of ...

Quetta – Chief of Balochistan National Party (BNP) and former Chief Minister (CM) of Balochistan, Sardar Akhtar Mengal has said that China-Pak economic corridor (CPEC) project is not acceptable without the consent of local people, reported Dawn. Akhtar Mengal made this statement while talking to media after meeting Sardar Sadiq Umrani, President of Provincial chapter of PPP. Former CM said ...

On Monday, Farmers of Balochistan blocked all major roads in protest against electricity load shedding. According to their claim, they have lost Rs. 147 billion in agriculture products due to 23 hours of daily load shedding. Balochistan is the biggest victim of electricity load shedding and this fact is not very well known in rest of Pakistan. Both Federal government ...

Adnan Aamir According to reports of Educational awareness groups, 2.3 million children are out of school in Balochistan. Literacy rate of the province is a mere 39 percent. In order to increase literacy rate in the province, current government led by Dr. Malik Baloch imposed an educational emergency. Educational budget was increased to 26% of the total budget which is ...

Quetta – At a time when people of Balochistan are suffering from plethora of problems, Members of Provincial Assembly (MPAs) of Balochistan demand diplomatic passports for speaker and Deputy Speaker of the assembly. Yesterday, during the Assembly session a resolution was tabled by Health Minister Rehmat Saleh Balochistan which demanded Federal government to immediately issue diplomatic passports to Speaker and ...

Quetta – Highways in all over Balochistan were blocked by Zamindar Action committee (ZAC) to protest long hours of electricity load shedding, on Monday. ZAC is a union of farmers and growers in Balochistan and it had given a call to block all major roads of Balochistan to record its protests against federal government for long hours of load shedding ...

Quetta – Unnecessary long delays in the recruitment process of government jobs have raised suspicions of irregularities and corruption. Unemployment is one of the major problems of the province and government jobs are only source of employment for the people. Whenever a government vacancy is advertised thousands of people apply for it. Tests of jobs in Industries and commerce department ...

Quetta – Member of opposition benches in Balochistan Assembly, Sardar Abdul Rehman Khetran has said that the official name of our province is “Balochistan” and calling it “Pashtun- Baloch” Province is unconstitutional. “In the constitution of Pakistan the name of our province is “Balochistan” and it should be called with its real name,” Mr. Khetran stressed, adding that distorting the name ...

Quetta – Senate elections in Balochistan have taken an interesting turn as Balochistan National Party (BNP) has demanded its debt from ruling National Party (NP). According to BNP, in senate elections of 2006 a four party alliance was formed comprising of BNP, NP, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP). BNP voted for the candidates of the alliance ...

Imdad Baloch Balochistan is one of the richest resource states in the South Asia but its inhabitants live in abject poverty. Balochistan has the lowest literacy rate and highest infant mortality rate in all over Pakistan. Despite being a naturally rich province, people of Balochistan suffer due to apathy of Provincial and Federal government. Over US$1 trillion worth of natural ...