Balochistan

 Quetta – Female students of University of Balochistan (UOB) taking annual exams of Masters in Education (M.Ed) announced to boycott the exams due to frisking by male invigilators. Addressing a press conference in Quetta Press club on Sunday, Female students of UOB lead by Ayesha, Zareen and Asma complained against what they claimed immoral attitude of controller examinations of UOB. ...

As we know that education is the third eye of a nation but unluckily in Balochistan the quality of education is falling day by day. In a recent survey conducted by Azat foundation, it was revealed that the literacy rate in balochistan is 33% which should be a big cause of concern for everyone in this society. There are hundreds ...

Adnan Aamir Quetta – University of Balochistan (UOB) was shut down on Saturday after protest of student’s organization intensified against the administration of the university. UOB is the oldest and largest public sector university in Balochistan that also conduct gradation level examinations of degree colleges in Balochistan. Protests against incumbent Administration of UOB started more than month ago but these ...

Shoaib Durrazai Turbat – Balochistan National Party (BNP) has demanded from concerned authorities to install electricity transformers in those areas of Turbat where electricity voltage is low. Spokesman of BNP Kech chapter, Majeed Dashti advocate made these demands while talking to The Balochistan Point. “Keck district is the home district of Chief Minister (CM) Balochistan and despite that it suffers ...

In Khuzdar, we are facing 16 hours of power cuts for the past one year, but guess what? We are so peaceful that we can never imagine to block the roads or protest against this injustice because we are Pakistanis and love our country, and can never imagine to embarrass our tribal elders who we elect to the assemblies to ...

Quetta – Majid Khan Achakzai, member of Provincial Assembly from Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PKMAP) has been appointed as chairman of Public accounts committee. Public accounts committee is one of the most important Parliamentary Committees as it holds government accountable for all sorts of expenditures that it has made. In Aftermath of 18th amendment, it was agreed by all political parties ...

Quetta – Opposition parties of Balochistan including JUI and Awami National Party (ANP) dominated the last phase of Local body election in 5 districts of Balochistan, on Thursday. In Qilla Abdullah, alliance of JUI and ANP defeated ruling Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PKMAP) and its allies. Mailk Usman Achakzai of ANP was elected chairman and Abdul Wakeel of JUI was ...

Quetta – Fly-Dubai Airlines commenced its international flight operations from Quetta on Thursday. Flight operations of Fly-Dubai were inaugurated by Governor of Balochistan, Mohammad Khan Achakzai at Quetta International Airport. Speaking at the occasion Governor Balochistan said that “Commencement of international flights from Quetta would give boost to trade and people would have direct access to Arab Countries and air ...

Adnan Aamir On May 29, two passenger buses travelling from Pishin to Karachi were intercepted in the Mastung district of Balochistan. Twenty-two people from the buses were forcefully taken out and executed in the nearby mountains. All the victims were Pakhtun passengers who were mercilessly killed by the miscreants. The next day, a dubious Baloch miscreant organisation, the United Baloch ...

Quetta – Balochistan Inside a leading bilingual magazine of Balochistan would be launched on 12th June, learnt The Balochistan Point. Balochistan Inside would be launched from Karachi city and its focus would be on economic and social issues of Balochistan. Sources at Balochistan Inside said that the new magazine would focus on quality analysis and present the issues of Balochistan ...