Oslo: Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani children’s right activist, along with Kailash Satyarthi of India jointly won the Nobel Peace prize for 2014, on Friday. Norwegian Nobel Committee headed by Norway’s former Prime Minister Thorbjoern Jagland made the announcement on Friday declaring Malala and Kailash Satyarthi to be joint winners. Malala Yousafzai belongs to Swat valley of Pakistan and she was shot ...

Quetta: Employees working in Private sector are paid less than the minimum wage set by federal government. Federal government has set minimum wage of Rs. 12,000 but private employers are not abiding by the law, according to a report published in Jang Quetta. The private employers don’t even issue contract letters to the employees which are required by law.  Some ...

Zahid Gishkori Like the Pakistan Peoples Party-led government before it, the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has also turned a blind eye to filling vacant posts reserved under Balochistan’s quota. The PML-N government has inducted 111 employees in the Postal Services of Pakistan after coming into power. However, not a single employee is from Balochistan. Almost one-third or 35 out of ...

Quetta: Dr. Malik Baloch, Chief Minister (CM) of Balochistan has said that ISIS militant can be present in Balochistan. In an interview to a newspaper on Wednesday, CM hinted towards the presence of ISIS militants in restive province of Balochistan. Dr. Malik said that religious extremism has risen significantly in Balochistan during last three decades, newspaper further reported. In recent ...

Aurangzaib Khan HE says he chose Cardiff in South Wales because the mountains reminded him of home. “Whenever I get bored or remember my country, I take a walk there,” Agha Mir Suleman Daud Khan, the 35th Khan of Kalat, told the BBC in 2007. But life in exile for the Baloch khan is not a break from the troubles ...

Quetta: Deputy Secretary of Chief Minister Secretariat, Ghulam Shah Dashti, was kidnapped in Kech District on Monday. Kech administration has confirmed the kidnapping incident and said that Mr. Dashti was kidnapped on gunpoint from Dasht Khudan area of Kech district. Kech is one of the most turbulent provinces of Balochistan and deputy commissioner of the district was kidnapped earlier this ...

Monis Ali I live in a province where there is no room for journalists; very few journalists die their natural death and the rest are killed. It seems that being a journalist in Balochistan is quickly turning into a curse. Recently, I asked one of my teachers regarding journalism and its worth. He replied: “journalism is the deadliest profession in ...

QUETTA: Arbab Abdul Zahir Kasi, the chief of Kasi tribe and former President of ANP Balochistan, was recovered from Peshawar earlier today. Arbab Zahir Kasi was kidnapped from center of Quetta city in broad daylights in October 2013. Current President of ANP Balochistan, Sardar Asghar Achakzai, has confirmed the recovery of Mr. Kasi and claimed that no ransom was paid ...

QUETTA: Former president of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Balochistan chapter and current senator Sardar Yaqoob Nasir has said that National Party (NP) and Pashtunkhaw Milli Awami Party (PKMAP) have occupied Balochistan government. NP and PKMAP will not get anything from keeping PML-N out of the loop in decision making process in Balochistan, said Senator Nasir. He further lamented that due ...

QUETTA: A powerful suicide blast killed 5 and injured scores of people in Ali Abad area of Hazara town on Saturday evening. According to police sources, Suicide bomber targeted a crowded shopping area of Hazara town where people were busy in shopping for Eid. The injured were transported to BMC hospital and CMH. The head of the suicide bomber was ...