Balochistan

Quetta: An attack by armed men on a worship place of Zikris has left 6 dead and 7 wounded in Ziarat-dan area of Awaran district, according to media reports. Unidentified terrorists came on three motor bikes and opened fire on worshippers when they were busy in worship, said Abdullah Jan, District Police Officer of Awaran while talking to media. Ziarat-dan, ...

Quetta: Three media personnel were gunned down in Kabir Building area of Quetta on Thursday evening. According to media reports, two unidentified gunmen stormed the Office of Online News agency in Kabir Building Quetta. The gunmen killed bureau chief of online news agency Irshad Mastoi, reporter Ghulam Rasool Khattak and accountant Younis. The assailants fled the crime scene without any ...

It is a struggle to get an education in Panjgur district of Balochistan. There are 23 private English-medium schools and coaching centres and early this year they began to receive threats from a group calling itself Tanzeem-ul-Islam-al-Furqan. This group wanted the schools to stop teaching English and end co-education. Eventually after bus and taxi drivers and students and school principals ...

Quetta: Judges parliamentary committee has approved Justice Ghulam Mustafa Mengal as new chief Justice of Balochistan High court, on Tuesday. Arshad Leghari chaired the meeting of Judges Parliamentary committee which was held in Parliament house. Incumbent Chief justice of Balochistan High court, Qazi Faiz Essa was approved as a judge of Supreme court of Pakistan by Judges Parliamentary committee. Shakil ...

Quetta: A private school, in Panjgur, was set on fire by unknown miscreants, yesterday. The miscreants threatened to set on fire all schools if the co-education system continued in Panjgur district. According to a report published in Express Tribune, miscreants on two motor bikes stormed Oasis school in Panjgur. They used petrol to set the office of the principal of ...

By Bari Baloch QUETTA: Hunger, poverty, frustration and oppression speak volumes in Balochistan especially when a person travels to its interior parts where innocent, gloomy and sad faces of dwellers ask a number of questions about their dismal and pathetic state of affair. Such miseries can easily be seen in districts of Naseerabad and Jaffarabad which are called “green” districts ...

Today is the 8th death anniversary of Nawab Akbar Bugti. The events related to his assassination are still shrouded in mystery. However, everyone knows that he was assassinated on the orders of Musharraf who congratulated his troops after his assassination. Later on, the dictator backtracked form his statements and alleged that Nawab Akbar Bugti had committed suicide. There is no ...

Mariyam Mohammed Suleman Walking on the wet sand of the West bay of Gwadar with friends on a Sunday morning in 2006, 11 year-old Sammi, as a new 6th grader, was sharing her excitement for her new class with her friends. All of a sudden she heard screams of people and saw lots of men with resentment coming out of ...

Quetta: Militants blew up the shrine of Shiekh Taqi Baba in Mastung district on Tuesday. A woman was wounded in the bomb blast, according to Mastung Police. The targeted shrine is located in center of Mastung. Miscreants had installed explosives inside the shrine according to Nazeer Ahmad, Mastung police official. Police and other security forces have cordoned off the area ...

Quetta: A Balochistan-wide shutter down strike is being observed on the 8th death anniversary of Nawab Akbar Bugti, today. Nawab Akbar Bugti was assassinated on 26th August 2006 on orders of former dictator, General Pervez Musharraf. According to reports, a complete shutter down strike is being observed in entire Baloch belt and Baloch areas of Quetta. The call for the strike was ...