Adnan Aamir Quetta – Participants of Balochistan Multi-Party Summit have urged the need for coordination between legislators of all provincial assemblies in Pakistan, on Tuesday. Two-day Balochistan multi-party summit was jointly organized by Democracy Reporting International (DRI) and Balochistan Provincial Assembly. The multi-party summits, which will be held in all four provinces, are part of DRI’s initiative to facilitate inter-provincial ...

Adnan Aamir Quetta – Balochistan Multi-party Summit commenced with visit of parliamentarians of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) to Balochistan Assembly, on Monday evening. Multiparty summit is taking place in Quetta under the Auspices of Democracy Reporting International (DRI) a not-for-profit organization working on rights of citizens for political participation. Theme of the Multi-party summit is “Democratic Stability through Responsive ...

Adnan Aamir Quetta: Three-day monthly polio campaign in Balochistan will commence from 11th January, said Dr. Saif-ur-Rehman coordinator Emergency Operations Center (EOC) while addressing a press conference, on Sunday. Forthcoming Polio Campaign will target 2,472,616 children administration of polio drops in 30 districts of Balochistan. In this campaign 6,603 polio teams will administer polio drops on 796 fixed sites and 321 ...

Adnan Aamir Quetta : Chief Minister (CM) of Balochistan, Nawab Sanaullah Zehri, has said that bureaucracy is subservient to the parliament of Balochistan while addressing Balochistan Assembly session, on Friday. First Session of Balochistan Assembly in 2016 was convened on Friday evening with Speaker Rahila Durrani on the chair. Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal and Senator Agha Shehbaz ...

Adnan Aamir Quetta: Educational Problems of Balochistan were discussed in a convention which was supposed to track education budget of Quetta District. A seminar titled “Education Budget Tracking Convention” was conducted by Alif Ailan in Quetta Press Club, on Tuesday. Majority of the participants discussed the general educational issues rather than discussing the education budget of Quetta. Nazir Lehri, provincial coordinator ...

Adnan Aamir Quetta : China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has been dubbed as game changer for the region. However, Sardar Akhtar Mengal who is President of Balochistan National Party (BNP) and Former Chief Minister (CM) of Balochistan says that there is nothing in CPEC for Baloch. Supporting his claim, BNP chief added that there is no drinking water for people of Gwadar ...

Adnan Aamir Quetta : Consultative workshop held in Quetta Press Club emphasized on formulation of effective disaster risk reduction plans for Balochistan, on Thursday. Consultative workshop was held by Civil Society Balochistan and Health and Nutrition Society (HnNuts) in collaboration with Action Aid and Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA). Zahid Mengal, executive director of Azat Foundation, discussed the disaster prone situation ...

Adnan Aamir Quetta : Candidates appearing in recruitment tests of Balochistan Public Service Commission (BPSC) have decried the new verification rules. Justice (R) Mehta Kailash Nath Kohli after being appointed as Chairman of BPSC changed the verification rules and made it mandatory for candidates to verify all their official and academic certificates from the issuing bodies. Previously, only those candidates were ...

Adnan Aamir Quetta : Education Network Balochistan (ENB) was launched through a press conference in Quetta Press Club, on Thursday. ENB is a coalition of different Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and technical experts who will work for betterment of education in Balochistan through advocacy and raising voice. ENB was represented in the press conference by Zahid Mengal of ...

Adnan Aamir Quetta: Technocrats of Planning and Development (P&D) department of government of Balochistan have protested against the meddling of bureaucrats in posts which are reserved for technocrats, on Tuesday. Cancellation of recently advertised four posts of Assistant Chief of Section is termed as instance of unfair meddling in P&D departments by technocrats. P&D department is one of the most important ...