Sami Parvez On 11th February, I met with my brother Irfan Obaid to bid him farewell before embarking on my journey to Iran. I started my journey towards Iran in a rented car which I shared with another passenger. My fellow passenger was an Iranian citizen who was returning back to his hometown after conducting some official business in Pakistan. ...
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Past Walks With Me
Razzak Sarbazi Yesterday, I wept during sleep Days were frozen, whole day I walked alone and was cherishing memories of my mother During sleep, I embraced her and couldn’t stop my tears I woke up early morning at 6’O clock there was dark still, Syrian war stricken were sleeping profoundly in their rooms Naughty Albanian children were also lying fatigued ...
Read More »ISIS Can Capture Balochistan Just Like Mosul: Warns Iranian Parliamentarian
Quetta: Iranian Member of Parliament, Hussain Ali Sheryari, has strongly warned that Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) can capture the Sunni majority province of Sestan-Balochistan if peace is not restored there. According to a report published in Al Arabia newspaper, Mr. Sheryari issued this warning while addressing session of Iranian parliament. “If the Sunni-Baloch community of Sestan Balochistan ...
Read More »Malala Yousafzai journey from death to Nobel Prize
By Shireen Gul On October 10, Malala Yousafzai and India’s Kailash Satyarthi both were awarded Nobel Peace Prize, for their work promoting children’s rights. Malala became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. She is the second Pakistani to become a Nobel laureate after Abdus Salam who also shared the prize in 1979 with US nominee Steven Weinberg for ...
Read More »Malala Yousafzai wins Nobel Peace Prize
Oslo: Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani children’s right activist, along with Kailash Satyarthi of India jointly won the Nobel Peace prize for 2014, on Friday. Norwegian Nobel Committee headed by Norway’s former Prime Minister Thorbjoern Jagland made the announcement on Friday declaring Malala and Kailash Satyarthi to be joint winners. Malala Yousafzai belongs to Swat valley of Pakistan and she was shot ...
Read More »Showdown in Islamabad
Adnan Aamir Political showdown in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, has reached its boiling point. Police attacked the peaceful protestors of two political parties without any provocation. The course of events that followed, from last night onwards, have exposed the brutality of the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The protestors belonged from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT). ...
Read More »Operation concluded at Quetta Airbase, 10 militants killed
Quetta: At least 10 militants were killed and 11 security personnel were injured during the operation early on Friday at Samungli and Khalid airbases in Quetta. The militants had attacked the Samungli and Khalid airbases in Quetta. The security personal have also arrested one injured militant and shifted him to an unknown place for interrogation. The exchange of fire continued ...
Read More »Girls’ Right to Education Threatened in Balochistan
By Yousaf Ajab Baloch Threats to girls for abandoning education in Pakistan’s Panjgur district and in other areas of Makran, has unfortunately failed to gain media attention or response from International human rights organizations. Tanzeem-ul-Islami-ul-Furqan, is another Boko Haram in Balochistan, that has got forcibly closed down all private running schools and English learning centers in Panjgur district opposing coeducation ...
Read More »Pakistan activists upset by new security law
By Asad Hashim Islamabad, Pakistan – Sitting in a tent outside the Islamabad Press Club, in the baking heat of the Punjab summer, Zerjan Baloch awaits justice. Not that she expects to receive it, she says. On March 18, witnesses said a group of armed men in paramilitary uniforms and others in plainclothes apprehended Zahid Baloch, Zerjan’s husband, in the southwestern city ...
Read More »Journalists in Troubled Pakistan Province Face Disappearance, Torture
By Sherry Ricchiardi The tall, lanky reporter brushed away tears as he described the mangled bodies and anguished cries for help. Shell-shocked survivors wandered aimlessly in the rubble left in the wake of a suicide bombing. Minutes after medics, police and the media rushed to the scene, a second explosion shook the neighborhood. The reporter watched in stunned silence as ...
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