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Quetta: The Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Resources Jam Kamal Khan has said that government is giving top most priority to the progress and prosperity of Balochistan and especially its most backward areas. Addressing the inaugural ceremony of Natural Gas to Gawadar, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Resources Jam Kamal Khan said that the project had ...

Quetta: Three young Baloch girls are participating in Rio Olympics2016, representing different countries. Rio 2016 Olympics opening ceremony begins on August 5th, 2016 in Brazil. The matches of this big event are being held in Rio de Janeiro which is the second biggest city of Bazil. On this big event 207 nations are participating and there are 11,551 Athletes. As ...

By Hisham Sarwar Rafay Baloch, a Pakistani (Islamabad) based security researcher/ethical hacker has won US$ 5,000 in a combined bug bounty for identifying a huge bug. This bug exists in various browsers such as Chrome, Firefox etc covering 75% of whole internet traffic. The bug is an Address-bar Spoofing bug, which means that a hacker can display whatever URL in ...

 Staff Reporter Quetta: Chief Minister Balochistan, Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri has said that livestock and agriculture sectors are the mainstay of economy of the province and government is taking concrete steps for their development. “Balochistan has been bestowed with rangelands, natural pastures and various weathers that is significantly supportive for breeding of cattle and agriculture,” he added. He was addressing ...

Quetta: Iranian security forces handed over 203 Pakistani nationals to Levies forces at Pak-Iran border in Taftan area of the district. Levies sources said on Friday that these Pakistani workers were apprehended from different areas of Iran by the Iranian security forces for living without documents and had come to Iran to earn livelihood. The Levies forces said that deportees ...

Mariyam  Suleman  Baloch Karachi: YES (Youth Exchange and Study) Alumni celebrated “The Power of Women” as part of International Women’s Day celebrations in University of Karachi  this Friday during one-day extensive workshop. The participants had the opportunity to discuss persisting issues of women in restricted societies and various strategies that may help  reduce the issues if not end them at ...

Mir Behram Baloch  Quetta:  Met-Office has predicted widespread rain-thundershower in Balochistan while isolated heavy thundershower is likely to persist till Sunday in Quetta, Zhob, Kalat, Makran, Sibbi and Naseerabad divisions. According to the Met Office, a well marked low pressure area lies over southeastern part of Iran and its trough lies over upper parts of Balochistan.  A shallow westerly wave ...

Quetta: We will have to give a developed and peaceful Balochistan to the next generations, said Chief Minister Balochistan, Nawab Sanaullah Zehri while addressing at luncheon hosted in his honor by Speaker Balochistan Assembly, Ms. Raheela Hameed Khan Durrani here on Monday. Chief Minister Balochistan, Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri stressed on the need of peace to achieve development in province.  ...

EDITORIAL Dawn IT was only with the greatest of reluctance that Sanaullah Zehri, provincial PML-N leader, ceded the chief minister’s office to Abdul Malik Baloch of the National Party in 2013. It took the personal intervention of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and, as emerged a year later, a written pledge that Mr Zehri would in fact ascend to the chief minister’s ...

The ongoing crisis — that in effect is a low-intensity war — in Balochistan continues to take lives on all sides. There are estimated to be around 2,000 political activists killed in the last eight years. Some of that number have simply ‘disappeared’ and are presumed dead, others are found by the roadsides riddled with bullets whilst yet others turn ...