Balochistan

Quetta: Unidentified miscreants killed four polio workers, Including 3 women and wounded three others in eastern bypass locality of Quetta city, on Wednesday. According to eyewitness accounts, the vehicle of polio campaigners was intercepted by miscreants in eastern bypass area of Quetta. Masked men opened fire on the vehicle indiscriminately. According to the account of a survivor, government had not ...

Quetta: Sardar Akhtar Mengal, Chief of Balochistan National Party (BNP) has said that during the reign of current government in Balochistan, only places that are developing are graveyards. Talking to Online news agency on Tuesday, Mr. Mengal criticized Balochistan government for their failure in protecting the lives of people of Balochistan. “Security situation is worsening day by day and the ...

Quetta: All Parties Democratic Alliance (APDA) has announced to observe black day on 7th December to protest the unnecessary delay in Local Bodies elections. APDA is a political alliance for local bodies which comprises of all major political parties of Balochistan excluding Pashtunkhaw Milli Awami Party (PKMAP) and National Party (NP). The meeting of APDA was held on Sunday in ...

Zahid Ali Baloch Zikris are the oldest settlers of the Makran region of Balochistan, Pakistan, and they have followed this belief system from their ancestors. They can also be found in several other areas of Balochistan, mainly in Awaran, Khuzdar and Quetta. The word “ Zikiri” is referred to those who are following this particular sect. Zikri follow the teaching ...

Quetta:  22 children have died and over 1300 affected this year in Balochistan due to measles because government of Balochistan has failed to release allocated funds to combat measles. According to a report published in Express Tribune, Government had allocated Rs. 137 million for Anti-Measles campaign but it’s yet to be released while innocent children are dying. Experts say that ...

KARACHI: A large number of Baloch women and members of Baloch Students Organization-Azad carried out a protest rally against the abduction of Baloch women from Dera Bugti on Sunday. The protesters rallied from Karachi Art council to Karachi Press Club against ‪ ‎allegedly abducted  Baloch female from Dera Bughti, Balochistan. Protesters demand safe recovery of victim Baloch women. The women ...

Mir Behram Baloch QUETTA: Save the Children with the financial support of The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands has successfully implemented the Balochistan Education Programme (BEP) in collaboration with the Education Department Government of Balochistan, This was stated during the closing ceremony of Balochistan Education Programme (BEP) on 20th November 2014 at Quetta Press Club. The event was ...

Gwadar: Members of Gwadar Youth Forum (GYF) held a protest demonstration against Quetta Electricity Supply Corporation (QESCO) at Shuhada-e-Jiwani chowk Gwadar, on Friday. GYF activists protested against recruitment of outsiders on five vacancies of QESCO in Gwadar. Protesters rejected the recruitment in the shape of transfers from other districts and demanded the cancellation of the transfers. President of GYP Barkat Baloch ...

By Malik Siraj Akbar Viewpoint Online recently published a response to one of my Huffington Post articles, “the End of Pakistan’s Baloch Insurgency”. While I write these words, today’s (November 22)Daily Tawar, the most widely read Baloch nationalist newspaper, has a front page story quoting Khalil Baloch, the chairman of the pro-independence Baloch National Movement (BNM), expressing concern about mounting differences ...

By Safiullah Shahwani The modern world and its approaches differ from the past in more ways than one. To elaborate, it has an international governance structure, emanating from international law and unanimously agreed upon by all the civilized nations; it has international institutions, international monetary system, international trade regulatory system and above all international justice providing bodies and human rights ...