Balochistan

QUETTA: Two brothers’ bullet riddled dead bodies were found in a car in Murgap area  of Kech District some 900 kilometers away from provincial capital on Sunday. According to Balochistan levies sources some passerby spotted the bodies in a car in Murgap area and informed the Balochistan levies. The Balochistan levies force rushed to the spot soon after the incident ...

QUETTA: The slain minorities minister Handry Massieh was laid to rest in his native town in Mastung District, on Sunday. Handry Massieh was gunned down allegedly by one of his personal guards on Saturday over a personal dispute. Provincial Minister for Service and General Administration Department (S&GAD) Balochistan Nawab Muhammad Khan Shahwani, Dr Yaseen Baloch and thousands of others from ...

QUETTA: In a statement issued on Saturday, the central spokesman of Baloch Students Organization – Azad (BSO-A) has strongly Condemned Jamiat Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat Balochistan’s leader  for  leading burial prayer of Nawab Khair Baksh Marri.  ‘We discourage and strongly reject any form of sectarianism, religious hatred and extremism.’ the spokesman said. “The night before Baba Marri’s burial, we came ...

QUETTA: Minority member of the Balochistan Assembly Handery Masieh has been  killed by his guard in Quetta on Saturday, an official said. According to an official   the minority member of the Balochistan Assembly Handery Masieh was killed in a firing incident in Nawan Killi, located in the suburbs of Quetta — the provincial capital of Balochistan. The security guard of ...

KARACHI: Pakistan Peace Coalition Secretary General BM Kutty and Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER) Executive Director Karamat Ali have expressed deepest condolences to the family members, friends and political associates of Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri, who passed away in Karachi recently, says a press release. The condolence message reads: “Despite varying opinions on the late Nawab Khair ...

By Shahid Husain Veteran Baloch Marxist Nawab Khair Baksh Marri bowed out on Tuesday after protracted illness. He was 86.  Born in Kohlu in Balochistan on February 1928, Marri was the founding member of the erstwhile National Awami Party and inspired several generations of Baloch youth. He was equally revered by Sindhi nationalists. He was seen as the kingpin of ...

Quetta: The Balochistan government has imposed educational emergency in the province. We are concerned over depleting standard of education and seriously making efforts to address the shortage of qualified teachers, schools buildings and the dropout. These remarks were made by the provincial advisor on education Sardar Raza Mohammad Barech in a seminar organized by Save the Children Pakistan programme. “The ...

Quetta:  Baloch Political Philosopher and veteran Baloch nationalist Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri, who passed away on June 10th, has been laid to rest in New-Kahan, Quetta on Thursday. Thousands of Baloch people, political leaders, students participated in the Funeral. Nawab Khair Buksh Marri (86) died on Tuesday in Karachi at a private hospital after his worse health condition. His dead body was ...

By Gibran Peshimam KARACHI: The chief of the Marri tribe will be quietly buried on Thursday  at 86 years old in Balochistan’s Kohlu district, but the “father of modern Baloch nationalism” was born amidst the swelling decibels of a military crackdown on the same soil some 50 years ago. He was the original irreconcilable Baloch born out of Pakistan’s original ...

By Ashraf Jehangir Qazi   Khair Bakhsh Marri is no more. He was my brother-in-law. I did not always share his political views. But I always admired his personal and political character. If the Pakhtun had Bacha Khan, the Muslim Bengalis had Suharwardy and the Sindhis had G M Syed, then the Baloch had Khair Baksh Marri. Each one of ...