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  QUETTA: Doctors strike in government hospitals across Balochistan entered sixth day on Tuesday in protest against their senior colleague’s kidnapping from Quetta. Cardiologist Dr. Munaf  Tareen was kidnapped from the city last week when he was heading back to his home from his private hospital at Pishin Stop. The abductors, opening aerial gunfire, took him away on board along ...

  Quetta: Baloch Students Organization – Azad (BSO-A) has strongly condemned execution of 5 Baloch youths by Iranian forces in Zahedan city of Western Balochistan. In a statement issued on Sunday, BSO-A spokesman has termed it a continuation of non-stop Baloch genocide by occupying forces.  Iran is practicing collective executions of Baloch youths to stop the growing trend of national consciousness among ...

Quetta: Members of the Christian community took out a protest rally on Sunday to condemn the suicide attacks on a Church in Peshawar. They raised slogans against the KPK Government for failing to secure safety of Christians. The main protest rally assembled before Quetta Press Club before proceeding to the Balochistan Assembly. Small protest rallies were also taken out in ...

QUETTA: The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Saturday released three doctors who had been kidnapped from Balochistan in June this year. As per media reports, the three released doctors were among five people kidnapped in Balochistan while travelling towards Zhob from Loralai District. Zhob borders the lawless tribal region of Waziristan. Five people, including three doctors, were kidnapped 42 days ago on ...

QUETTA: The Frontier Corps (FC) and Balochistan Police on Saturday arrested 16 suspects during a search operation in Gwadar and recovered three vehicles and five motorbikes from their possession. Sources said that many of the suspects hailed from Karachi. FC IG Ejaz Shahid praised the performance of FC and police, saying that peace could be restored in the province through ...

QUETTA: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Mr Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has said that missing persons will be charged according to law keeping in view their fundamental rights. He said  this while  Speaking at a dinner hosted by Balochistan Bar Association here on Monday night, the Chief Justice dwelt at length on “enforcement of fundamental rights through superior judiciary” The ...

    Kalat: Gunmen attacked a convoy of NATO oil tankers in Kalat overnight, killing a driver and torching eight vehicles, local officials said Friday. According to the details unidentified armed men fired rockets and bullets at the convoy of 15 oil tankers traveling from Karachi to landlocked Afghanistan. The police officials said that gunmen attacked the convoy at a ...

  Quetta: The security forces on Friday arrested at least 85 Afghan citizens who were illegally traveling from Quetta to Karachi. According to security sources, on tip off, the security personnel stopped a Karachi bound passenger bus and arrested at least 85 Afghan nationals under Foreign Act. The security sources said that the arrested Afghan citizens were traveling with no ...

  Quetta: Unidentified armed men overnight kidnapped and killed three labourers who hailed from Punjab and were working in Balochistan not far from the Gwadar port. The attack happened at a stone-crushing plant at Santsar, around 70 kilometres north of the Gwadar port. “Gunmen came during the night and attacked. They set fire to machinery at the plant, kidnapped the ...

  Quetta: While speaking to BBC Urdu service, the central spokesman of the Baloch Republican Party Mr Sher Mohammad Bugti rejected the negotiation call of the Balochistan government and said that term “negotiation” was used to eliminate the target.   BRP spokesman said “the negotiation call of the Pakistani government to Baloch leaders is to confuse the world, state atrocities, ...