Balochistan

Lahore: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Thursday said a few politicians from Balochistan have been striking backdoor deals with PM Nawaz Sharif and several key decisions are being hidden from the Baloch people. Addressing the PPP Balochistan Convention here, Bilawal alleged the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz led provincial government in Balochistan of being loyal to ‘Raiwind throne,’ instead ...

Quetta: More than 600 people in Balochistan have been registered as HIV/Aids patients with the number of non-registered patients. Said Chief of Balochistan Aids Control Program at an event held in Quetta to mark the World Aids Day 2016. According to Dr. Noor Qazi, the Chief of Balochistan Aids Control Program, the number of non-registered patients is more alarming. Qazi ...

Quetta: Technical Advisory Group (TAG) Chairperson Dr. Jean Marc Olive has said that Balochistan is in the right direction to wipe out polio virus from the province. In a meeting held at Balochistan Polio Emergency Operation Centre Tag Chairperson said that they were close to interrupt the virus transmission in Balochistan. “The province has shown remarkable progress which is commendable ...

By: Mir Behram Baloch  Quetta: The Balochistan High Court on Monday issued a bailable arrest warrant against former Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf regarding the murder of former Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti in a military operation in 2006. A divisional bench of the Balochistan High Court in Quetta passed the order during hearing of review petition challenging ...

Islamabad: The National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage, one of the premier cultural organizations of the country, has taken a number of initiatives to promote cultural diversity, especially the rich heritage and folk of backward and neglected areas. This was said by Executive Director Dr Fauzia Saeed while briefing a delegation of writers, poets and artists from Balochistan who ...

Kalat: A Group of volunteers at Kalat has launched a campaign to collect donation for treatment of 22 year Tahira Naseer who is suffering from Cancer in Kalat city. Tahira has been diagnosed with cancer due to tumor at her knee but her father is jobless and he is unable to get her admitted to any hospital for treatment. According ...

Quetta: Balochistan Assembly Speaker Raheela Hameed Khan Durrani assumed the charge of acting governor of Balochistan on Tuesday as the Governor Muhammad Khan Achakzai left for China on a 10-day official visit. Raheela Hameed Durrani is the first woman to take the charge of the acting governor of Balochistan. She is also the first woman speaker of the provincial assembly ...

By: Shah Meer Baloch A few days ago, a renowned activist friend of mine who is in the US these days laughingly commented on Facebook that no suicide bomber would ever think of detonating in Lasbela, Balochistan because it is hot as hell there. No bomber is mad enough to kill himself in such scorching heat. Alas, he was proven ...

By: Javed Siddique The local government in Balochistan is deprived of its rights. After the passage of three and half years, yet the provincial government is not delegated power to the grass-root level. If the government was not sincere to share powers why it conducted local bodies’ elections in the province? Dr Malik’s government loudly claimed to be the first ...

By: Mehboob Shahwani Hub: At least 62 people were killed and more than 95 have been injured in a huge blast in the premises of the Shah Noorani shrine in Khuzdar district on Saturday evening. Sources told that explosion has resulted death of 62 people who include women and children. More than 500 people were in the shrine at the time of ...