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Baloch Republican Party condemns acid attacks in Balochistan

QUETTA: Baloch Republican Party strongly has condemned the recent acid attacks in Quetta and Mastung where six Baloch women were targeted and wounded within 24 hours. BRP’s spokesperson in the issued statement has strongly condemned recent acid attacks in Quetta and Mastung and said that women had a very honorable status in the Baloch society and it is against Baloch ...

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Sardar Akhtar Mengal shifted home from hospital

Quetta: Chief of Balochistan National Party and former chief minister of Balochistan, Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal, has been shifted to his home from hospital in Karachi. Akhtar Mengal fell ill on 20th July while travelling from Karachi to his home town Khuzadr. He was shifted to a hospital in Karachi the same day. According to Balochistan National Party sources, Akhtar ...

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Editorial: Acid attacks on women in Balochistan

The restive province of Balochistan is always in the news for the wrong reasons. This time it’s the acid attacks on women by masked savages. Last Monday, miscreants sprayed acid on the faces of four women outside a shopping center in outskirts of Quetta. Less than 24 hours had passed and two more girls were attacked with Acid in Mastung ...

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The plight of agriculture sector in Balochistan

By Naseeb Ullah The poor people of the God gifted province Balochistan are always neglected by the federal as well as by provincial government in every sphere of life. It is a harsh reality that not a single industry in Balochistan is large enough to employ more than 50 people. Moreover, one potential sector which can pave paths for success ...

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Attack by acid

Editorial  The Express Tribune The spraying of acid on four women at a bazaar on the outskirts of Quetta on July 21, followed by a similar one on two women in Mastung, did not fit the usual profile. Acid attacks, the number of which has been rising in the country are generally intended to settle a personal dispute or some ...

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QUETTA: Man shot dead, another injured

QUETTA: A man was shot dead while another sustained bullet injuries in labor colony area of eastern by-pass satellite town on Tuesday.  According to satellite town police, unknown armed men, riding a motorbike, sprayed bullets on a vehicle and fled from the crime scene.  As result of firing, a person namely Khadim Hussain and his son Zafar Hussain sustained injuries and ...

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Two young age sisters come under acid attack in district Mastung

By Safiullah Shahwani QUETTA: Two young age sisters came under acid attack on Tuesday in district Mastung, sending alarm bells among the masses as the acid attacks are taking as an organized attempt to scare women inside homes in Balochistan. 4 women were doused with acid on Monday in the provincial capital and were virtually defaced for their simple crime ...

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Four women critically injured in Quetta acid attack

QUETTA: Unknown armed men threw acid on 4 women in the suburbs of the provincial capital which left the victims’ hands and faces burnt severely, on Monday. According to the Sariab Police, the victimized women were returning their homes at noon after visiting a shopping centre for their Eid shopping in Birave area of Killi Kamalu, a suburb of the provincial capital, when ...

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Armed men kill driver, injure many others

QUETTA: A driver was killed and many others were injured when unknown armed men opened gunfire on gas tankers, in Nushki area of Balochistan on Monday. According to the details, 5 tankers were en route from Taftan to Quetta when unknown armed men descended from nearby mountains in Sher Jan Agha area of Nushki and opened firing on them. As a ...

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We will not be a part of protest Movement of Imran Khan and Tahir ul Qadri – Akhtar Mengal

Quetta: Chief of Balochistan National Party and former Chief Minister of Balochistan, Sardar Akhtar Mengal, said that Balochistan is not in the agenda of both Imran Khan and Tahir-ul-Qadri; Therefore BNP will not be a part of the agitation movement planned by them. Talking to Media in Hub, Akhtar Mengal said that Balochistan Government has broken all the records of ...

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