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By: Shah Meer Baloch A few days ago, a renowned activist friend of mine who is in the US these days laughingly commented on Facebook that no suicide bomber would ever think of detonating in Lasbela, Balochistan because it is hot as hell there. No bomber is mad enough to kill himself in such scorching heat. Alas, he was proven ...

By: Javed Siddique The local government in Balochistan is deprived of its rights. After the passage of three and half years, yet the provincial government is not delegated power to the grass-root level. If the government was not sincere to share powers why it conducted local bodies’ elections in the province? Dr Malik’s government loudly claimed to be the first ...

Islamabad: Lok Virsa has newly discovered Folk Child Troupe, Young Child artists who will also perform at the Faiz International Festival 2016. Executive Director Lok Virsa Fauzia Saeed said that one of the mandates of Lok Virsa was to discover new artists and promote them into the mainstream society. “The Institute proudly presented the discovery of new in the past ...

By: Mehboob Shahwani Hub: At least 62 people were killed and more than 95 have been injured in a huge blast in the premises of the Shah Noorani shrine in Khuzdar district on Saturday evening. Sources told that explosion has resulted death of 62 people who include women and children. More than 500 people were in the shrine at the time of ...

Quetta: Chairman of the Balochistan Public Service Commission and his colleagues refused to postpone the scheduled PCS and other BPSC examinations to accommodate a few candidates who are appearing M.A. and M. Sc examinations of University of Balochistan, Quetta. This was finally decided in a meeting between the BPSC Chairman and the Chief Minister at the Chief Minister Secretariat where ...

By: Mir Behram Baloch Quetta: Balochistan Freedom of Information Act 2005 is ineffective and needs to be repealed. It does not facilitate citizens and journalists in getting information from public bodies. There is a need for an effective right to information law for the province on the lines of those enacted in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. These views were expressed ...

Quetta: The death toll from an explosion and fire at a Gadani ship-breaking yard last week has risen to 26, officials said on Sunday. More than 57 others were wounded in the incident when a gas cylinder exploded and started a fire inside an oil tanker at the Gadani yard in the in Gadani district Lasbela. A local government official, Zulfiqar ...

Kalat: District Education officer Kalat Sher Ahmed Sumalani has said that education department would conduct professional training for teachers of private schools in Kalat in order to transfer new approaches and teaching techniques. This was shared in a meeting held with principals of private schools at district education office Kalat on Saturday. Mr. Sumalani appreciated efforts of private schools for ...

Quetta: Balochistan’s Home department has issued a threat alert stating that a “lady suicide bomber” has reached Quetta, where she is believed to carry out a terrorist attack. “It has reliably been learnt that a lady suicide bomber, ageing between 17 and 18 has reached Quetta for some terrorist activity,” the letter read. It said that two terrorists along with ...

Quetta: Competitive examines would be conducted in accordance with its schedule which has already been announced, said a press release issued by the provincial government, here on Saturday. According to statement, the BPSC examinations would be held on schedule and strongly rejected the reports that the examinations are being postponed or delay. “There is not truth in rumors that competitive ...