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Ehsaas Emergency Cash program requires redesigning in upcoming phase

By: Muhammad Yousaf World is globally facing the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 crisis is a huge challenge for human beings worldwide. Since it is not only affecting human beings physically but also mentally, socially and financially. The impact of the pandemic is different in every country, However, it is an alarming situation that pandemic is affecting people in Pakistan financially and ...

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Live with Adnan Aamir to be launched on 8th August

QUETTA: Live with Adnan Aamir, a weekly live streaming show, will be launched from 8th August. The show will be broadcasted live every Saturday at 8 PM, Pakistan Standard Time. Adnan Aamir, the Editor of Balochistan Voices and four-time national journalism award winner, will host the show. This show will cover politics, economy, and society. It will cover topics ranging ...

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Health authorities fail to control quacks and business of substandard medicine

By: Yousaf Ajab Baloch KALAT: Balochistan has been confronting multiple challenges in Health sector and alleviation of such problems in health sector can only be an illusion, the mentioned issues are weather due to lack of resource or poor administrative management.  Lack and absence of staff, especially doctors in different cities of Balochistan has also caused presence of quack doctors ...

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ISLAMABAD: Balochistan Freedom of Information Act 2005 needs amendment  

 ISLAMABAD: Centre for Peace & Development Initiatives (CPDI) organized an online consultative session with the Balochistan stakeholders regarding the Balochistan Freedom of Information Act 2005. The consultative session is a part of the series of consultative sessions organized for reforms in the Balochistan Freedom of Information Act 2005. The participants of the session included Behram Lehri (Social Activist), Syed Ali ...

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CHAGAI: Labourers working fencing at Pak-Afghan border demand payment of wages after being defrauded by private contractors

CHAGAI: Several labourers have demanded the authorities concerned to get paid their wages as two private contractors allegedly defrauded them after completing the fencing work under the supervision of Army in Bahramchah and surroundings at Pak-Afghan border in Chagai district. During a press conference at Dalbandin Press Club, Ali Akbar, Inayatullah, Mehrullah, Mohammad Ibrahim, Abdul Malik and their colleagues said ...

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 Stakeholders demand to be taken into confidence in connection with renovation of Dalbandin bazar

CHAGAI: Majority owners of the shops and houses located at London road in Dalbandin expressed apprehensions over the way master plan is being implemented in the city to reshape Dalbandin bazar. After a thorough discussion in a meeting held at Notezai house Sargesha, the former chairman district council of Chagai Mir Dawood Khan Notezai along with PTI leader Malik Amanullah ...

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Kalat: LeviesForce arrested culprits involved in chopping the juniper trees at Harboi

KALAT: On the special directions of Deputy Commissioner Kalat, Izzat Nazeer Baloch today Assistant Commissioner Kalat, Zahid Langove alongwith Levies force raided the houses at Surkhain area of district Kalat and arrested three culprits who were allegedly involved in chopping the juniper trees at Harboi. The accused had chopped four juniper trees to construct a protection wall for their fields. ...

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Balochistan always suffers the most!

By: Munaj Gul Muhammad Nazir Muhammad, gets up early in the morning and takes the herd of sheep to forest for grazing. He is almost 49. His profession has never eased his troubles, therefore, he has no dreams in dwelling a comfortable life since his childhood.  Sometimes, his family members sleep without taking a loaf of bread due to deprivation. ...

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Missing Baloch journalist Sajid Hussain found dead

SWEDEN: The dead body of the missing Baloch journalist Sajid Hussain was found in a river in Upsalla, Sweden after the journalist went missing on 2 March 2020. Sajid Hussain was the Editor in Chief for an online magazine Balochistan Times and also worked for many other Pakistani mainstream media outlets before moving to Sweden in 2017 as a refugee ...

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UNHCR donates medical equipment to Children Hospital Quetta

QUETTA: UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency provided state-of-the-art medical equipment to Children Hospital Quetta as part of its ongoing work to support the Provincial Government and improve public health care services in hospitals in Balochistan. The equipment valued at Rs.7 million includes a fully automated chemistry analyzer, an instrument used for the biochemical testing of total bilirubin, urea, creatinine, liver ...

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