Balochistan

Quetta – Panjpai, a sub-Tehsil of Quetta district doesn’t have a single girl’s high school, learnt The Balochistan Point. Panjpai is a town of over 10,000 people and it’s situated at a distance of 80 Kilometer from provincial capital of Quetta. Only Boy’s High School of the town was established in 1978 and there is not a single girls High ...

Abdul Baseer Khan Lasbela district comprises of five Tehsils and 22 Union Councils and its spread over 15,153 square kilometer, according to the 1998 Census. Lasbela has a coast line which is renowned for its beauty and picture perfect scenery but apart from that the District has one burning issue that is ignored continuously. The issue is of illegal drug ...

Quetta – A woman was killed when levies personnel fired on a passenger bus in sangar area of Zhob region, on Wednesday. According to reports, passenger Bus was coming to Quetta from Islamabad and levies personnel fired on it when it didn’t stop at the check post. Levies personnel fired directly on the bus with complete disregard for human lives. ...

Sami Parvaz Quetta – Dr. Amir Baksh, coordinator of Maternal, Neonatal & Child Health Program (MNCH) program was kidnapped in broad day light from Quetta city, on Wednesday. Dr. Amir Baksh was kidnapped outside his office situated on Sariab link road by four armed gunmen. Valuables of the abducted doctor such as his car, mobile and laptop were left behind by ...

Imran Baloch After the elections of 11 may 2013, Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch was elected from Turbat city as a member of Provincial assembly (MPA). It was for the first time in the history of Balochistan that a person was nominated and elected Chief Minister (CM) of Balochistan from Makran division. Political workers and common people appreciated this decision of ...

A candidate narrates how he was deprived of his right in job selection in Jaffarabad district of Balochistan. Government of Balochistan had announced earlier that recruitments of Secondary Education will be held by under the supervision Deputy Commissioner (DC) of concerned district so that transparency can be ensured. Written exams for Junior Clerks (BPS-7) for education department in Jaffarabad were ...

Adnan Aamir On April 2, an agreement was inked by PTI and PML-N to form a judicial commission to investigate allegations of rigging in the general elections of 2013. Justice Nasirul Mulk, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Pakistan has chosen himself to lead that commission. On Thursday, in its first sitting, the commission asked all political parties to submit ...

Adnan Aamir Balochistan is considered the most backward province in Pakistan; and one of the reasons for this backwardness is the poor state of education. The literacy rate in Balochistan, standing at 39 percent, is the lowest when compared with all other provinces. Over 2.3 million children are out of school and there is lack of basic infrastructure and facilities ...

Quetta – Precision Systems Training Center (PSTC) Quetta has been closed by Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial research (PCSIR) owing to deteriorating law and order situation, reported Daily Balochistan Express. PSTC was established in the year 1987 with a total cost of Rs, 63.646 million by PCSIR. PSTC conducted a 3 years diploma in Precision Mechanical & Instrument Technology. ...

Quetta – Recruitment tests for education department vacancies took place in Quetta, on Sunday. In Quetta alone, more than 9,000 candidates appeared for the test conducted by National Testing Service (NTS). According to the candidates, arrangements for the test were deplorable. Female candidates specifically faced inconvenience due to poor management of NTS. “NTS charged excessively high amount of fee for ...