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Nadir Jailani QUETTA: QUETTA: Muhammad Haleem, 46, a farmer by profession, in Noshki district does not seem happy with farming anymore as he did not achieve what he was expecting to get from farming. “Though we irrigate our lands through tube-wells but drought hitting Balochistan for the last couple of years, dry spells and lack of rain have left negative ...

QUETTA: Poor applicants of Balochistan have paid over Rs. 50 Million to National Testing Service (NTS), so far, for job applicants of education department only. Balochistan government advertised vacancies of over 4,000 in education department in November. Rs. 1000 was set as the fee per application by Government of Balochistan. Fee for similar vacancies in Sindh provinces is a meager ...

Ghulam Ali Bugti Police force is important for maintaining rule of law in any society. Police needs to be properly trained and equipped with modern weapons and skills to combat criminals and terrorists. No society can function that has a weak Police Force. Similarly, morale of the Police should also be kept high all the times so that they can ...

QUETTA: Youth Wing of PML-N has alleged that Balochistan government is earning revenue by charging high amount of fee for job applications. Vacancies were announced in Local Government department couple of months back and over 18,000 candidates applied for them. Now, Balochistan government has again asked the applicants to re-submit their applications along with Rs. 400 as fee. “This is ...

QUETTA: Provincial minister for Food, Izhar Khan Khosa, has alleged that Chief Minister (CM) of Balochistan has diverted development funds unfairly to Makran Division. Izhar Khan Khosa, who belongs from PML-N, has blamed CM for non-development in the Naseerabad Division which is the “Green Belt” of the province, according to him. Agriculture University and other development funds, according to Mr. ...

QUETTA: Quetta Electricity Supply Company (QESCO) has further increased the electricity load shedding in entire Balochistan, amid the winter season. Qesco has cited increase in shortfall as the reason behind increase in load shedding. According to QESCO sources, Electricity demand in Balochistan, excluding Makran, is 1,650 Megawatt and supply is only 500 Megawatt. This has resulted in a shortfall of ...

QUETTA: The protests by students of Bolan Medical College (BMC) continue due to the apathy of Balochistan government. Students of BMC started their protests couple of days back against mismanagement, Negligence and corruption of BMC principal who has allegedly has the blessing of Dr. Malik’s government. Police was called by BMC administration to quell the protests on Monday. Police brutally ...

QUETTA: Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch and his government is destroying Bolan Medical college (BMC) the only medical college in Balochistan, said the angry students of BMC while protesting on Monday. Students of BMC closed the main gate of BMC and protested against the BMC administration and Balochistan government for number of grievances. Exams of MBBS were supposed to start after ...

QUETTA: In a move that hints towards change in policy of government, security forces in Quetta launched a crackdown against the shops that were selling hate material, on Saturday. Crackdown was jointly carried out by Police, Levies and Frontier Corp (FC) with the help of information provided by intelligence agencies. According to security officials, at least 40 shopkeepers were arrested ...

Ghulam Ali Bugti In small urban centers of Balochistan, private schools can be found every next door. Most of such schools are not registered and being run by under graduate people such as matriculates. Such educators run schools in morning time and in evening time they run their tuition academies. They have no teaching experience and use this noble profession ...