Balochistan

Quetta: Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University was reopened on Wednesday, 25 days after a deadly attack on its students. The university was closed after a suicide attack there on June 15 in which at least 14 students were killed and many others injured. Enraged students staged a protest demonstration against the attack. The protesting students were holding placards and banners ...

Quetta: At least one person, suspected to be a kingpin of a banned outfit, was killed, two others arrested and a huge cache of arms and ammunition was recovered in a search operation jointly conducted by Frontier Corps (FC) and Anti-Terrorist Force (ATF) in the Dasht area of district Mastung on Wednesday. “Security forces conducted a targeted operation in the ...

Quetta: The mega project of RCD highway from Quetta to Kalat yet to be   completed.   The National Highway Authority (NHA) had listed the project as mega project when it started the construction work in 2006, but it is still incomplete after seven years of its construction date. Billions of rupees and several construction companies have been altered. More than ...

Quetta: At least eight students of Degree Colleague Quetta injured in a clash between Baloch and Pashtun students of the college on  July 9, on Tuesday. The clash erupted at the Degree College Quetta between ethnic groups belonging to Baloch Students Organization (M) and the Pashtun Students Organization.  The clash began about 9 a.m, when the members of Pashtun Students ...

Currently the University of Balochistan is confronting a number of problems and the major one of them is financial issue. According to the academic staff and financial experts of the university, the biggest public sector institution in Balochistan has reached the verge to be unable to pay the salaries of academic and lower staff. Senior staff member say that scarcity   ...

Karachi: The Baloch Human Rights Organization (BHRO) conduced a demonstration against human rights violation in front of Karachi press club on July 6, on Saturday. The women activists of B.H.R.O were holding banners and play cards inscribed with appeals to stop human rights violation in Balochistan. Addressing the participants the speakers termed human rights volition on rise in Balochistan and ...

Quetta: Armed militants torched an oil tanker carrying fuel for Saindak Copper and Gold Project run by a Chinese company in Mastung district of Balochistan on Saturday. According to the details  that militants from nearby mountains opened fire on three  oil tankers in Choto area of Mastung and one of the tankers caught fire;however, there were no casualties as the ...

Chaman : At least 11 people were killed including seven Afghan soldiers and several others injured on Friday in a suicide attack that took place at the Pak-Afghan border in the Chaman, the  main town in  the southwestern province of Balochistan for  crossing point of  supplying  goods and equipments for American and Nato troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. According ...

Quetta: Three suspected militants linked with a banned group have been apprehended by security forces from Kuchlak town of Balochistan today (Friday). According to the initial details, the security forces raided a house in Kuchlak today and arrested the suspected terrorists. Weapons were also recovered from their custody. They have been shifted to some undisclosed location for interrogation. According to ...

  Quetta: At least three people were killed in different incidents across the province on Wednesday. According to details, a man was gunned down in Sibi district of Balochistan.The victim, identified as Rehmatullah, was gunned down by unidentified armed men on Nishtar Road. The assailants escaped after the attack. Police reached the site soon after the incident and shifted the ...