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Quetta: A policeman was gunned down at Sariab Road of Quetta. Police officials said that Munir Ahmed a police constable was on his way when armed men riding a motorbike sprayed him with bullets at Arif Line of Sariab Road. The policeman died immediately and the assailants fled from the scene. However, motive behind the murder is yet to be ...

Usta Muhammad: A person identified as Ameen allegedly shot dead his wife namely Mukthara in Usta Muhammad tehsil of Jaffarabad district and managed to escape from the scene. Police said that domestic issue could be behind the murder, however, probe into the incident was underway to unearth real motive behind the murder. A case has been registered and further investigations ...

PISHIN: At least four miners died of falling boulders in a chromite mine in Pishin district of Balochistan, media reported on Monday. According to the details   miners were working in the mine when the boulders fall in the chromite mine in Pishin district. The falling land mass has caused  death of four miners, while several others feared to be trapped ...

  QUETTA: As many as seventeen security personnel were wounded in a roadside bomb blast in Sibi district while two people, including a policeman and woman were killed in Quetta and Jaffarabad Districts of Balochistan, on Monday.   According to police, a convoy of security forces was heading towards Kohlu district from Sibi when it was attacked with explosives in ...

QUETTA: The shrine of great Balochi Sufi poet of Balochistan, Mast Twakali, was torched by unidentified people in Kohlu district, some 220km away from the provincial capital Quetta. According to local officials, the incident occurred a couple of days back when some unknown people barged into the shrine of Mast Twakali in Mawand area of Kohlu district in the early ...

QUETTA: Unidentified armed men killed two persons and torched a private container in Dhadar area of Bolan district, some 70 kilometers southeast of Quetta, on Sunday. Balochistan Levies sources said that a private container of Afghan trade was heading towards Afghanistan from Karachi when armed men intercepted container on gunpoint at Dhadar area and opened indiscriminate fire. Resultantly, two occupants driver ...

QUETTA: Over 13 people, including six alleged militants, women and children were killed in an exchange of firing between armed men and security forces, in Jaffarabad district of Balochistan, on Sunday morning. According to the sources, armed men forcibly entered the local Wadira Ghazi Khan Mahrata Bugti’s house located in Mousiani Goth area of Jaffarabad and opened indiscriminate fire on inmates. Resultantly, ...

Editorial Dawn.com THE discovery of mass graves in the restive Khuzdar district of Balochistan late last month opened an ugly new chapter in a long-running and sordid tale. With a Supreme Court-mandated inquiry committee to present its findings at the next hearing in Islamabad on March 7, the details are still quite scarce. Whose bodies were found and how they ...

Within a week after the election of a new president for the Balochistan Union of Journalists (B.U.J.), the largest representative organization of journalists in the province, a journalist and his driver were shot dead in Balochistan’s Jaffarabad District. Mohammad Afzal Khawaja, a reporter for Daily Balochistan Times (English) and its sister publication in Urdu, Zamana, was killed by unknown armed ...

QUETTA: In reaction to nonpayment of salary of last five months, the lady health workers (LHWs) have announced to boycott the anti-polio campaign in Balochistan including Quetta scheduled to start from Monday (tomorrow).      The lady health workers also staged a protest demonstration in Civil Hospital Quetta on Saturday and demanded the government to immediately pay them the due remuneration. Published ...