Balochistan

Adnan Aamir Quetta – Civil Society Balochistan has demanded that Balochistan government should establish trauma centers at all major highways to avoid loss of life in case of accidents, while addressing a press conference in Quetta Press Club on Thursday. Addressing the press conference, Civil Society Balochistan convener Sami Zarkoon and member Shah Jahan Baloch revealed that there is not ...

Adnan Aamir Quetta: A four member committee has been constituted to investigate resource distribution of Higher Education Commission (HEC) to Balochistan since 2007, learnt Balochistan Express though its sources. This decision was made in a meeting between HEC chairman and representatives from Balochistan, on Tuesday. Balochistan members raised the issue that Balochistan is getting much less than its due share in ...

Adnan Aamir Quetta – Participants of Balochistan Multi-Party Summit have urged the need for coordination between legislators of all provincial assemblies in Pakistan, on Tuesday. Two-day Balochistan multi-party summit was jointly organized by Democracy Reporting International (DRI) and Balochistan Provincial Assembly. The multi-party summits, which will be held in all four provinces, are part of DRI’s initiative to facilitate inter-provincial ...

Adnan Aamir Quetta – Balochistan Multi-party Summit commenced with visit of parliamentarians of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) to Balochistan Assembly, on Monday evening. Multiparty summit is taking place in Quetta under the Auspices of Democracy Reporting International (DRI) a not-for-profit organization working on rights of citizens for political participation. Theme of the Multi-party summit is “Democratic Stability through Responsive ...

Adnan Aamir Quetta: Three-day monthly polio campaign in Balochistan will commence from 11th January, said Dr. Saif-ur-Rehman coordinator Emergency Operations Center (EOC) while addressing a press conference, on Sunday. Forthcoming Polio Campaign will target 2,472,616 children administration of polio drops in 30 districts of Balochistan. In this campaign 6,603 polio teams will administer polio drops on 796 fixed sites and 321 ...

Adnan Aamir Quetta : Chief Minister (CM) of Balochistan, Nawab Sanaullah Zehri, has said that bureaucracy is subservient to the parliament of Balochistan while addressing Balochistan Assembly session, on Friday. First Session of Balochistan Assembly in 2016 was convened on Friday evening with Speaker Rahila Durrani on the chair. Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal and Senator Agha Shehbaz ...

Quetta: Unidentified assailants have shot dead a high profile Afghan Taliban commander in Balochistan, two Taliban officials claimed on Friday. Molvi Muhammad Alam, a senior   commander to Taliban supreme Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, was shot dead Thursday evening in Kuchlak area, some 25 Kilometrts from Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan. Taliban leaders told one of the national newspapers on condition ...

Mukhtiar Ahmed Qadri Khaliq Abad : At least one person killed and 15 others sustained injures   on Thursday  morning when a passenger coach collided head-on with a trailer on the Quetta-Karachi RCD Highway in the Khaliq Abad Mangocher area of Kalat district.  According to the Levies officials the passenger coach was going to Quetta from Karachi this morning.  It met ...

Adnan Aamir Quetta: Educational Problems of Balochistan were discussed in a convention which was supposed to track education budget of Quetta District. A seminar titled “Education Budget Tracking Convention” was conducted by Alif Ailan in Quetta Press Club, on Tuesday. Majority of the participants discussed the general educational issues rather than discussing the education budget of Quetta. Nazir Lehri, provincial coordinator ...

Adnan Aamir Quetta : China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has been dubbed as game changer for the region. However, Sardar Akhtar Mengal who is President of Balochistan National Party (BNP) and Former Chief Minister (CM) of Balochistan says that there is nothing in CPEC for Baloch. Supporting his claim, BNP chief added that there is no drinking water for people of Gwadar ...