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QUETTA:  At least three persons were injured as members of the two political groups clashed outside a polling station in the provincial capital. According to the police the clash occurred between activists of two rival political parties in the Satellite Town area of the city turned violent.  Polling for the local bodies’ election was stopped for a while and was ...

QUETTA : Baloch Republican Party (BRP) has allaged that Pakistani forces started a massive military operation  in many areas of Dera Bugti and Naseerabad early this morning. Dozens of armored vehicles of forces carrying military troops laid a siege to several villages of  Dera Bugti and Naseerabad  including Beti and RD 238. Forces opened intense firing on civilian populace and ...

  By Mariyam Mohammed Suleman   Gwadar, the hub of political ups and downs from the history, today once more is conspicuous with the municipality elections. Only two days of campaigns remain for different participating parties in Gwadar including the two unifications of diverse parties. Coalition of mainly Balochistan National Party and People’s party along with some other minor groups ...

By Mariyam Mohammed Suleman   An influential attempt for the nation’s abducted missing people’s recovery, commencing in October from Quetta finally reached Karachi in the last week of November. The extensively exhausting journey of 756 kilometers by fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, daughters and sons of the either missing or martyred Balochs holding the photos of their loved ones, walking constantly with ...

By Yousaf Ajab Baloch The long  march of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) led by Qadeer Baloch reached its destination after 27 days on 22 November at Karachi press club. This long march was started   on 27 October from Quetta and marched some 730 Kilometers. Notion to launch this long march was to highlight the abductions of Baloch missing ...

By Kamila Hyat The images were dramatic ones. A group of some 25 people, most of them women or children – some aged no more than nine years – walked for 26 days along the N-25 Highway that winds its way through Balochistan and Sindh, from Quetta to Karachi. Most covered the 756 kilometres in plastic slippers, tying strips of ...

QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch has condemned border violations by Iranian forces and said the federal government has been asked to take up the issue with Iranian authorities. He said this at a press conference at Chief Minister’s Secretariat on Monday. To a question, he condemned the violation of Pakistani border by Iranian security forces and said ...

NAWABSHAH: At least six persons, including women and a child, were killed and several others injured in a collision between two vehicles in the city on Monday. “The accident took place at Sakrand Bypass of Nawabshah where a car and passenger van collided head-on. As a result of accident, six persons were killed on the spot while several others sustained ...

By Niaz Betab  The oppressive systems always forced the oppressed to walk long and long distances either mentally or physically to get justice. For instance, the Salt Satyagrah, the March on Washington, the Long March and the recent Long March by the Voice for  Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP). Gandhi with his Satyagrahis walked 390-km before he picked up a lump of salt to ...

By Shoaib Durrazai Karachi: I was pressurized by government and state agencies for not launching long march, alleged Qadeer Baloch, vice chairman of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) in his press conference at Karachi press club on Friday.  The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) led by Qadeer Baloch launched a long march from Quetta to Karachi on 27 October to ...