Balochistan

Quetta: Chief of Balochistan National Party and former chief minister of Balochistan, Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal, has been shifted to his home from hospital in Karachi. Akhtar Mengal fell ill on 20th July while travelling from Karachi to his home town Khuzadr. He was shifted to a hospital in Karachi the same day. According to Balochistan National Party sources, Akhtar ...

Quetta: Electricity crisis has deteriorated in the turbulent province of Balochistan. Apart from Quetta, rest of Balochistan is facing long hours of load shedding in the warm season of summer. District headquarters are getting 10 hours electricity daily, whereas Tehsil headquarters are getting 6 to 8 hours electricity in 24 hours. In case of villages, electricity is only provided 2 ...

The restive province of Balochistan is always in the news for the wrong reasons. This time it’s the acid attacks on women by masked savages. Last Monday, miscreants sprayed acid on the faces of four women outside a shopping center in outskirts of Quetta. Less than 24 hours had passed and two more girls were attacked with Acid in Mastung ...

By Naseeb Ullah The poor people of the God gifted province Balochistan are always neglected by the federal as well as by provincial government in every sphere of life. It is a harsh reality that not a single industry in Balochistan is large enough to employ more than 50 people. Moreover, one potential sector which can pave paths for success ...

Editorial  The Express Tribune The spraying of acid on four women at a bazaar on the outskirts of Quetta on July 21, followed by a similar one on two women in Mastung, did not fit the usual profile. Acid attacks, the number of which has been rising in the country are generally intended to settle a personal dispute or some ...

Editorial Daily Times Fundamentalist vigilantes have once again taken to their old practice of forcing women to stay at home and remind them that if they ever have to venture out, it should not be without a male relative. This group of psychopaths typically hibernates throughout the year and suddenly becomes active when Eid arrives, using it as a convenient ...

QUETTA: A man was shot dead while another sustained bullet injuries in labor colony area of eastern by-pass satellite town on Tuesday.  According to satellite town police, unknown armed men, riding a motorbike, sprayed bullets on a vehicle and fled from the crime scene.  As result of firing, a person namely Khadim Hussain and his son Zafar Hussain sustained injuries and ...

By Safiullah Shahwani QUETTA: Two young age sisters came under acid attack on Tuesday in district Mastung, sending alarm bells among the masses as the acid attacks are taking as an organized attempt to scare women inside homes in Balochistan. 4 women were doused with acid on Monday in the provincial capital and were virtually defaced for their simple crime ...

QUETTA: Unknown armed men threw acid on 4 women in the suburbs of the provincial capital which left the victims’ hands and faces burnt severely, on Monday. According to the Sariab Police, the victimized women were returning their homes at noon after visiting a shopping centre for their Eid shopping in Birave area of Killi Kamalu, a suburb of the provincial capital, when ...

QUETTA: A driver was killed and many others were injured when unknown armed men opened gunfire on gas tankers, in Nushki area of Balochistan on Monday. According to the details, 5 tankers were en route from Taftan to Quetta when unknown armed men descended from nearby mountains in Sher Jan Agha area of Nushki and opened firing on them. As a ...