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Quetta: Balochistan Live Stock Department on special instructions of Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri has launched a spray drive to prevent spread of Congo Virus in Loralai, Zhob, Barkhan, Qilla Abdullah and Quetta districts. Live Stock Department has also appealed the people to adopt all precautionary measures in order to check spread of Congo Virus in human being as ...

By Tariq Butt Islambabd: There has been little or no progress on a Balochistan-specific vital point of the counterterrorism National Action Plan (NAP). Point 17 of the NAP says the Balochistan government will be “fully empowered for political reconciliation with complete ownership by all stakeholders”. The comprehensive details of implementation of the NAP points projected by the federal government are ...

Quetta: The Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Resources Jam Kamal Khan has said that government is giving top most priority to the progress and prosperity of Balochistan and especially its most backward areas. Addressing the inaugural ceremony of Natural Gas to Gawadar, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Resources Jam Kamal Khan said that the project had ...

Quetta: Armed men killed four people in Nimargh area of Kalat and dumped their bodies in a desolated area on Friday. Four of them were kidnapped by armed persons a day before from Nimargh area of Kalat and today their bodies were on dumped. According to the Levis force, “Armed men killed them and dumped their bodies in the desolated ...

Quetta: Security Forces have launched a combing up operation in Mastung District and said to have arrested 27 suspects including four facilitators that took part in Civil Hospital carnage. Security forces and Law Enforcement Agencies had launched combing operation on Friday in Kanak hilly region, some 25km far from Quetta. A formidable force was used in the action meant to ...

Quetta: Three young Baloch girls are participating in Rio Olympics2016, representing different countries. Rio 2016 Olympics opening ceremony begins on August 5th, 2016 in Brazil. The matches of this big event are being held in Rio de Janeiro which is the second biggest city of Bazil. On this big event 207 nations are participating and there are 11,551 Athletes. As ...

By: Aditya Menon Let us look at the story of a migrant from Balochistan who came to Mumbai as a child and went on to become one of Bollywood’s most loved personalities: actor and dialogue writer Kader Khan “My mother was from Quetta in Balochistan. My father was from Kandahar. Officially I was born in Kabul but some of my ...

By: Mohsin Ali The complexity and interconnectedness of today’s globalized world have rendered development challenges increasingly interlinked and global in nature. Prosperity cannot be sustained without finding integrated and common solutions and without all countries contributing in a spirit of solidarity and shared responsibility. The post-2015 agenda has framed sustainable development as a universal project. On the one hand, it ...

Quetta: The Balochistan government on Wednesday formed a high-level Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe into the August 8 suicide bombing in Quetta Civil Hospital which killed 70 people and left dozens injured. Senior police officer Zahoor Afridi would head the JIT, sources in Balochistan’s Home and Tribal Affairs Department said, as well as the ,officers belonging to the Inter-Services ...

By: Shahzeen Haris Karachi: Pakistan’s rapid urban population growth is causing a severe housing shortage—estimated to be in the region of 10 million units—and demand continues to grow at a rate of 0.7 million units per year. The urban housing shortage is somewhere in the region of 3.5 to 4 million units, most of which is in the economically weaker ...