ISLAMABAD:  The National Institute of Folk & Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa), in collaboration with Smithsonian Institution, USA and Interactive Resource Centre (IRC) conducts the first ever “Greatness in Diversity” Festival in Pakistan.  The cultural/curatorial capacity enhancement conference was held in Islamabad on Wednesday 5th of April, 2017. The format was that of a full-day symposium aimed at opinion makers and ...

By: Staff Reporter QUETTA: In the recent outbreak of Chikungunya in the coastal belts and the adjoin areas of Balochistan Secretary Health Mr. Asmat Ullah Kakar has constituted a provincial task force with the Director General Health Balochistan Dr. Masood Qadir Nosherwani as a Chair and Provincial Coordinator Malaria Control Programme as Coordinator, having clear TORs for coordination and implementation of ...

By: Staff Reporter KALAT: Provincial President of Senior Educational Staff Association (SESA) Abdul Ghaffar Kadizai has said that their protest for implementation on 30 Point Demand Notice would continue until 13th of April. He said this while addressing seminar In Kalat on Tuesday. Abdul Ghaffar Kadizai said, “In order to save department of education from further destruction, corruption, nepotism, injustice, ...

Quetta: Three-day anti-polio drive will begin in twenty nine districts of Balochistan from Monday. Addressing a news conference Provincial Coordinator Emergency Operation Centre Balochistan Syed Faisal Ahmed said in Quetta more than 2.4 million children up to five years of age would be administered anti-polio vaccinations during the campaign. More than nine thousand mobile teams have been constituted. He also ...

 By: Staff Reporter Quetta: A tricycle distribution ceremony was held among the persons-with-disabilities here on Saturday under the aegis of the Social Welfare Department Balochistan. As many as 30 tricycles were distributed among the persons-with-disabilities while 34 more would be given away to special persons shortly. Secretary Social Welfare Department Dr. Kahoor, while talking to Balochistan Point, was of the view that ...

By: Staff Reporter Quetta: Chief Minister Balochistan, Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri has said that media is playing an important role in strengthening democracy and highlighting social issues.    Talking to a delegation of newly elected- body of Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ) led by its president Khalil Ahmed, General Secretary Ayub Tareen, Rasheed Baloch and Irfan Ahmed on Wednesday  he ...

Quetta: The union of the persons with disabilities (Awaz-e-Maazoran Balochistan) has announced to stage a sit-in outside Governor and Chief Minister House in the favor of their demands. Members of the union Azatullah, Noor Ahmed, Imran Khan, Ahmed Khan and others   told to media during a press conference on Sunday. Speaking to media, they said that they had planned the ...

Quetta: Unidentified armed assailants gunned down a local journalist and the district Press secretary of Pakistan Media council in Kalat town, some 130 kilometres southeast of Quetta, on Thursday. Members of Mir Ahmed Yar Khan press club and local journalists have condemned the murder of Muhammad Jan Sumalani, a local journalists and Brahui language poet. According to the police source ...

Quetta: Pledging to fully support Non- Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working for the promotion of education and health sectors in the province, Chief Minister Balochistan, Nawab Sanaullah khan Zehri has said that government viewed such NGOs working for the welfare with great respect and reverence. He was talking to delegation of Muslim Hands Pakistan headed by his President Mr. Syed Bakht ...

Quetta: A man was gunned down by his cousin and her alleged paramour in the name of honour in Sani area of Kachhi district on Saturday. According to the sources a man identified as Umeed Ali opened indiscriminate fire on his cousin and her alleged paramour in village Bazdan Mai area of Kachhi district, both victims received many bullets wounds ...