Quetta: Females students of University of Balochistan who have been enrolled in M.Phil and PhD courses are deprived of hostel accommodation. In current semester, 70 female students have secured admission in M.Phil and PhD courses in university of Balochistan. Apart from few exceptions, no female student has been allotted accommodation in university hostels. The fee of PhD course is 150,000 ...

Quetta: Government and opposition parties should resolve the ongoing political conflicts by engaging in meaningful dialogue, stated Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) in a statement issued to press. The information wing of armed forces of Pakistan has urged all parties in impeding political impasse to show restraint and resolve the conflict in best interests of Pakistan. Army has been deployed ...

Quetta: Khuzdar mass graves commission report has been released and it has ruled out the involvement of security forces in this matter. The report was released by government of Balochistan on Tuesday. Earlier, in January 2014 a mass grave was discovered in Tootak area of Khuzdar. According to the claims of Home and Tribal Affairs department of Balochistan, 17 bodies ...

Quetta: Treasury and opposition benches of Balochistan assembly jointly passed a resolution to condemn Azadi march of Imran Khan and Inqilab march of Tahir ul Qadri, today. Session of Balochistan assembly was convened by governor Balochistan, Mohammad Khan Achakzai, to discuss the political situation in the country. Senior minister and president of PML-N Balochistan chapter, Sanaullah Zehri, tabled the resolution ...

Quetta: A dispute over irrigational water claimed lives of seven people near Balochistan-Punjab Border on Saturday. The belligerent groups belonged from the Koja sub-tribe of Bugti clan and the dispute took place in Barro area of Rajanpur district. According to sources, an armed clash erupted after a dispute on storage of rain water. Seven people lost their lives and four ...

By Haji Mohammad Barech Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif inaugurated Quaid-e-Azam residency at Ziarat on the Birth day of Pakistan – 14 August. This historical place was destroyed and responsibility claimed by Baloch insurgents group in 2013. Likewise, Balochistan faces insurgency in West, South and East. In the same way, unequivocal issue of missing person has also garbled the provincial government ...

By Mariyam Suleman Baloch “Enlighten me with the flames of my youth!” echoed a voice around the mountains of the province forming 43.6% area of the country. The voice travelled from the barren arid deserts to the 760 kilometers long coastline, from the vast plains of scattered population to the mineral rich districts and from a few urban and to ...

By Saher Baloch IT couldn’t be more ironic. As we enter Marri Camp, near Shalkot — an area outside Quetta playing host to an estimated 100,000 members of the Marri tribe — songs lauding the land that is Pakistan start playing on the radio. At a nearby peak, flags installed by the separatists fly high. A feeling of being completely ...

By Shehzad Baloch A few months ago, the director general of public relations (DGPR) in Balochistan issued notices to 135 daily newspapers based in Quetta, seeking detailed information about their employees and all the official equipment they use for publishing papers. Once the data was collated, it was surprising to learn that more than 100 newspapers are published from Quetta ...

By Aziz Ullah Kakar Borderlands of many post-colonial states most frequently pay the price for protecting the centre. They are prima facie kept intentionally for such purposes when required. Nonetheless factual raison d’être for this objective is based more paradoxically on constructing discursively the existence of state as a natural phenomenon. In nitty-gritty while fathoming historically this is not the ...