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Noor Bakhsh Across Pakistan, journalists, mostly those engaged in sensitive areas, are at risk of fatal attacks on their lives. This is generally common in the country and particularly true in Karachi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Balochistan where threats to journalists are normal. Nevertheless, these incidents, especially when they go unchecked and unpunished, undermine the act and ...

Adnan Aamir For those who don’t know, the National Party is one of the ruling parties in Balochistan at the moment. It’s the party of the so-called “middle class” Chief Minister of Balochistan, Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch. It is the epitome of what’s wrong with political parties of the province. On June 7, 5 Hazaras were gunned down in broad ...

 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 ...