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Quetta:  At least four people from Hazera community were killed on Monday evening, when armed men opened fire at the vehicle on Masjid road area of Quetta. According to the police officials, four militants opened fire at the vehicle on Masjid road area of Quetta and all four men sitting in the vehicle were seriously wounded and succumbed to their ...

According to the media reports over 600 schools setup under a presidential ordinance in Balochistan have been closed and services of 684 teachers terminated. Under the ordinance, National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) was established in 2002 which setup 615 schools and hired 684 teachers in Balochistan to educate over 4,600 students in those schools. The NCHD extended cooperation to ...

Mohammed Attar Interviews Noam Chomsky   ( July 14, 2013, Beirut, Sri Lanka Guardian) During his recent visit to Beirut, American thinker and philosopher Noam Chomsky met with a group of independent Syrian media activists, aid workers and individuals active in cultural and economic spheres. Chomsky had made it clear that he had come to listen to them; to lend ...

Balochistan has been suffering from extreme murder of teachers, doctors, students, political activists, human rights defenders and intellectuals. Unfortunately, none of the killers have been arrested or government made efforts to mitigate these heinous acts against Baloch people. The recent target killing of Professor Abdul Razaq is part of the series, what the Baloch political activists and nationalist name it ...

Buleda: Unknown armed men killed nephew of Jan Muhammad Buledi, the spokesman of Chief Minister of Balochistan today on Friday at  Menaaz Buleda. According to the details Chiraag Baloch, the nephew of Jan Muhammad Buledi was on the way to his home when armed men riding motorcycle opened indiscriminate firing on him and escaped to the scene. Chiraag Baloch received ...

QUETTA: At least two people were killed in two separate incidents of firing in Khuzdar district of Balochistan here on Thursday. Police said that unknown armed men riding the motorcycle opened fire on Professor Abdul Razaq Baloch and his friend professor Abdul Hakeem in Khuzdar. Professor Abdul Razaq Baloch succumbed to the injuries, whereas, professor Abdul Hakim critically injured. The ...

Chaman: At least five people were killed and ten injured in a suicide attack near the Bab-e-Dosti check post at the Chaman border crossing. According to initial reports, the blast took place in Desh Mandi area, killing at least five people and injuring 10 others. The explosion took place when a man carrying a refrigerator on a push cart approached ...

Quetta: Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University was reopened on Wednesday, 25 days after a deadly attack on its students. The university was closed after a suicide attack there on June 15 in which at least 14 students were killed and many others injured. Enraged students staged a protest demonstration against the attack. The protesting students were holding placards and banners ...

Quetta: At least one person, suspected to be a kingpin of a banned outfit, was killed, two others arrested and a huge cache of arms and ammunition was recovered in a search operation jointly conducted by Frontier Corps (FC) and Anti-Terrorist Force (ATF) in the Dasht area of district Mastung on Wednesday. “Security forces conducted a targeted operation in the ...

By Thomas C. Mountain As Nelson Mandela lays on his death bed his legacy as the godfather of neo-Apartheid South Africa has been firmly established. Today in South Africa life for many if not most is nearly as precarious and undignified as when Mandela was first inaugurated as President some 20 years ago. So the best way to describe “modern” ...