Balochistan

QUETTA: The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Saturday released three doctors who had been kidnapped from Balochistan in June this year. As per media reports, the three released doctors were among five people kidnapped in Balochistan while travelling towards Zhob from Loralai District. Zhob borders the lawless tribal region of Waziristan. Five people, including three doctors, were kidnapped 42 days ago on ...

QUETTA: The Frontier Corps (FC) and Balochistan Police on Saturday arrested 16 suspects during a search operation in Gwadar and recovered three vehicles and five motorbikes from their possession. Sources said that many of the suspects hailed from Karachi. FC IG Ejaz Shahid praised the performance of FC and police, saying that peace could be restored in the province through ...

QUETTA: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Mr Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has said that missing persons will be charged according to law keeping in view their fundamental rights. He said  this while  Speaking at a dinner hosted by Balochistan Bar Association here on Monday night, the Chief Justice dwelt at length on “enforcement of fundamental rights through superior judiciary” The ...

    Kalat: Gunmen attacked a convoy of NATO oil tankers in Kalat overnight, killing a driver and torching eight vehicles, local officials said Friday. According to the details unidentified armed men fired rockets and bullets at the convoy of 15 oil tankers traveling from Karachi to landlocked Afghanistan. The police officials said that gunmen attacked the convoy at a ...

  Quetta: The security forces on Friday arrested at least 85 Afghan citizens who were illegally traveling from Quetta to Karachi. According to security sources, on tip off, the security personnel stopped a Karachi bound passenger bus and arrested at least 85 Afghan nationals under Foreign Act. The security sources said that the arrested Afghan citizens were traveling with no ...

  Quetta: Unidentified armed men overnight kidnapped and killed three labourers who hailed from Punjab and were working in Balochistan not far from the Gwadar port. The attack happened at a stone-crushing plant at Santsar, around 70 kilometres north of the Gwadar port. “Gunmen came during the night and attacked. They set fire to machinery at the plant, kidnapped the ...

  Quetta: While speaking to BBC Urdu service, the central spokesman of the Baloch Republican Party Mr Sher Mohammad Bugti rejected the negotiation call of the Balochistan government and said that term “negotiation” was used to eliminate the target.   BRP spokesman said “the negotiation call of the Pakistani government to Baloch leaders is to confuse the world, state atrocities, ...

  DERA BUGTI: Baloch Republican Party (B.R.P) has alleged that forces have started another massive military operation in many areas of Dera Bugti including Pat feeder, Mohan Pat, RD 248 and Kattan and dozens of house of Baloch villagers were set on fire. Women, children and aged-people were harassed  badly during operation. Sources of the Baloch Republican Party(B.R.P) media cell alleged ...

Quetta: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) on Wednesday urged  that issue of Balcohistan should be resolved through dialogue   and the federal government to concede that the operations launched in KP and Balochistan during the regime of a former dictator were a mistake. “On the Balochistan issue, Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik and BNP chief Sardar Akhter Mengal have showed the actual image ...

  Quetta: Lawmakers on Wednesday told participants of a focus group discussion that the Balochistan government would soon move a bill to put a halt on corporal punishment so that the rights of the children are protected effectively. National Party (NP) MPA Yasmeen Lehri and Pakhtunkhawa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) MPA Nasrullah Zeeray were among those who spoke on the ...