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By: Aditya Menon Let us look at the story of a migrant from Balochistan who came to Mumbai as a child and went on to become one of Bollywood’s most loved personalities: actor and dialogue writer Kader Khan “My mother was from Quetta in Balochistan. My father was from Kandahar. Officially I was born in Kabul but some of my ...

Quetta: The Balochistan Point has lost its data of more than three months due to the crash in Main Server in Ukrain on Monday. More than 1000 websites remained down for not less than 24 hours due to the crash in the main Server. The affected websites have been transferred to the new server; however, the data of hundreds of websites could ...

By Hisham Sarwar Rafay Baloch, a Pakistani (Islamabad) based security researcher/ethical hacker has won US$ 5,000 in a combined bug bounty for identifying a huge bug. This bug exists in various browsers such as Chrome, Firefox etc covering 75% of whole internet traffic. The bug is an Address-bar Spoofing bug, which means that a hacker can display whatever URL in ...

Quetta: Iranian security forces handed over 203 Pakistani nationals to Levies forces at Pak-Iran border in Taftan area of the district. Levies sources said on Friday that these Pakistani workers were apprehended from different areas of Iran by the Iranian security forces for living without documents and had come to Iran to earn livelihood. The Levies forces said that deportees ...

Karachi: United States (US) Consul General Brian Heath on Wednesday hosted a musical reception for Baloch journalists and civil society leaders at the consulate to celebrate Baloch Culture Day. Popular Baloch folk singer Akhtar Channal Zehri performed at the occasion. This is the second year the consul general marked the occasion at his residence. In his welcome remarks during the ...

Quetta: Empowering youth through education and skills development is key to stability and sustainable development, said UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner Mr. George Okoth-Obbo while speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the Women Technical Training Centre in Loralai district in Balochistan. UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner Mr. George Okoth-Obbo stressed the need for concerted efforts by all stakeholders to empower youth through education and ...

Washington D.C : The Balochistan Institute, a think-tank exclusively dedicated to Balochistan has been established in the United States, announced the founder of the Balochistan Institute based in Washington D.C. Malik Siraj Akbar, the founder and the president of the think-tank.  The Balochistan Institute is the first initiative in United States which has been launched with the goal to improve ...

Paris: Mother languages are essential to providing quality education, which in turn supports the achievement of the new global development agenda, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said on the International Day established to promote the preservation and protection of all languages used by peoples of the world. Marking International Mother Language Day, UNESCO ...

By Yousaf Ajab Baloch The recent inauguration of groundbreaking projects of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in Balochistan by Prime Minister of Pakistan and the severe crisis of water in Gwadar and lack of   basic facilities of life mirror a very pathetic state of Baloch as well as the systemized discrimination of Islamabad against Balochistan lasting for decades. Recently, while addressing at ...

Apart from number of reasons, assaults on Polio teams and their escorts has become the chief cause making Polio unbeatable in Pakistan. The religious militants have started a war against this noble cause and till today dozens of precious lives have been lost. Recently, once again Balochistan shocked when a suicide attack close to a polio vaccination center in capital ...