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15 Military Officers from Balochistan inducted in PSP and DMG

Quetta: On directions from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Federal Public service Commission has inducted 15 military officers from recognized tribes of Balochistan in Police Service of Pakistan and District Management Group. These officers have been selected from all three branches of the armed forces of Pakistan. This decision has been taken in the wake of refusal by growing number of ...

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A 16 inch diameter pipeline blown up in troubled Dera Bugti

QUETTA: A 16 inch diameter pipeline was blown up in troubled Dera Bugti district of Balochistan while a man was killed in provincial capital, on Saturday. According to the details, unknown persons had planted explosive material underneath a gas pipeline, leading to well number 21, in Pir Koh area of Dera Bugti. As a result, the pipeline was damaged and gas ...

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Editorial: Birth Anniversary of Nawab Akbar Bugti

Today is 87th birth anniversary of Late Nawab Akbar Bugti. This day in year 1927, Akbar Shehbaz Khan Bugti was born. He turned out to be a larger than life figure and took a stand against a dictator at the age of 79 years. He was assassinated on the orders of former military dictator, Pervez Musharraf, on 26th August 2006. Once Musharraf ...

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Armed men axe a woman to death in Kachi district

QUETTA: Armed men killed a woman in Tehsil Dhadar of the Kachi district on Friday. According to the reports, unknown men attacked a woman with axes in Dhadar and fled the scene after killing her brutally. Police reached the crime scene on being informed and took the body into its custody. The body was later handed over to the legal ...

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Traffic Problems in Quetta and some Solutions

By Naseebullah Quetta was designed as a small city by British in late 19th Century. Quetta was designed to cater to the needs of 100,000 people only.  In 1951 its population was 199,735 and according to estimates the population of Quetta was 1.3 million in 2012. Quetta is the only major urban city in entire Balochistan. People from every nook and ...

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Government Health Dispensary blown up in Kohlu Mawand

QUETTA: Unidentified persons blew up a government health dispensary in Kohlu Mawand area of Balochistan, on Friday. According to the reports reaching here, unknown armed men blew up a dispensary in Killi Ahmed Nawaz of Kohlu Mawand with explosives. The roof of the dispensary collapsed completely as a result however no casualties were reported in it. Local administration cordoned off the ...

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Pashtunwali and Foreign Militants in FATA

By Yousaf Kakar The invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 by the red army, did not only bring changes in political and social sphere of Afghanistan but as well as in adjacent tribal areas (FATA), meanwhile it also badly tarnished the notion of Pashutnwali. The invasion by the Red army attracted the fanatical Muslims of the world to Afghanistan in order ...

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Two killed in a firing incident in Kalat

KALAT: Unknown armed men opened gunfire and killed two persons in Kalat city on Friday. They were identified as Raheem Bakhsh and his son Sanaullah.  The assailants escaped the scene after the attacks. The bodies were shifted to the Civil Hospital Kalat and were later handed over the heirs after completion of medico-legal formalities.  The cause of the killing could not ...

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Two dead bodies recovered in Pishin

QUETTA:  local administration in Pishin recovered two dead bodies in Pishin on Friday. According to the reports, local administration in Pishin recovered two dead bodies from Yaro area of district Pishin. The local administration shifted the bodies to the Sandeman Hospital Quetta which were kept for identification in mortuary of the hospital. By Staff Reporter Published in The Balochistan Point ...

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Armed men kill five FC personnel in Balochistan

QUETTA: Unknown armed attacked security check-post in Tehsil Duki of Balcohistan, leaving as many as 5 FC personnel dead and 1 injured, on mid  Wednesday-Thursday night. According to the details, unknown armed men attacked FC check-post with sophisticated weapons at Nawab Coal Mines in Tehsil Duki of Loralai district. As a result, 5 personnel of FC were killed and 1 sustained ...

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