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Quetta: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has termed the report of judicial commission on Khuzdar Mass Graves, unsatisfactory. Fact finding commission of HRCP stated that aforementioned report has failed to indentify the culprits responsible for mass graves in Tootak Area of Khuzadr. HRCP chairperson made this statement while addressing a press conference in Quetta Press Club on Sunday. She ...

Quetta: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern over human rights violation in Balochistan, on Sunday. HRCP delegation led by its chairperson, Zohra Yousaf, visited Balochistan and met with lawyers, journalists and politicians. HRCP chairperson addressed a press conference in Quetta Press Club on Sunday. According to Miss. Yousaf, Poverty is driving factor behind the increase in militancy ...

Quetta: The state of education in Balochistan is miserable because 66% of children aged 5-16 years do not go to schools, according to a report issued by Alif Ailaan. Alif Ailaan, a non-profit organization that works for promotion of education, disclosed data about educational condition in Balochistan, in a press conference held on Saturday. According to Alif Ailaan, there are ...

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 ...

KARACHI: Relatives of missing Nabeel Baloch, son of former opposition leader Balochistan carried out a protest for safe release of their beloved at Karachi Press Club today.  A large number of children, women and civil society members protested on the first day of Eid, demanding safe release of Nabeel Baloch including   all disappeared persons from different parts of Balochistan. Nabeel ...

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 ...