By Sumit Galhotra/CPJ Asia Program Research Associate Top of Form  Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif made a series of commitments to safeguard press freedom during a meeting with a CPJ delegation last week. Among them was a pledge to speak out in support of media freedom and against attacks on journalists, particularly in high-conflict areas like Baluchistan.  Baluchistan–Pakistan’s largest province by area–has been mired in ...

QUETTA: Chief Minister Balochistan, Dr Abdul Baloch has said that Balochistan and the country had previously also experienced such hard times but scholars and intellectual through their knowledge and insight sort out amicable solutions to the problems. He expressed these views while addressing to “Inter Muslims Unity Conference” organized by Federal Ministry for Religious Affairs at a local hotel here on ...

Quetta: Baloch Republican Army (BRA) has claimed responsibility of the blast hit a railway track in Kashmore district of Sindh derailing four bogies of Khushal Khan Express. Media reported on Sunday.  According to the details militant organization Baloch Republican Army (BRA) claimed responsibility of the blast hit in which at least 10 people were killed and over 30 injured when a blast hit ...

QUETTA: A delegation of Pakistan Red Crescent Society Balochistan chapter, called on Chief Minister Balochistan, Dr Abdul Malik Baloch, here on Monday.  The delegation briefed Chief Minister Balochistan about its humanitarian activities rendered in different parts of the province particularly its performance in situation of natural disasters. Briefing the Chief Minister, the delegation said that Red Crescent helped earthquake affectees ...

QUETTA: Chief Minister Balochistan, Dr Abdul Malik Baloch has said that until and unless we strictly abide by the laws we would not progress in any sector. “We need to obey and respect the traffic laws and should bring a change in our attitudes,” he added. He expressed these views while addressing a seminar on “Road Safety” organized by National ...

QUETTA: Two bullet- riddled dead bodies dumped near Rind Gahr area, in the outskirts of Provincial Capital Quetta on Wednesday, said police. Unknown armed men shot dead two persons and throw away their bodies in a desolated area in Eastern Bypass area near Rind Gahr before fleeing the area. Local people spotted the bodies and informed the police that rushed ...

  QUETTA: As many as seventeen security personnel were wounded in a roadside bomb blast in Sibi district while two people, including a policeman and woman were killed in Quetta and Jaffarabad Districts of Balochistan, on Monday.   According to police, a convoy of security forces was heading towards Kohlu district from Sibi when it was attacked with explosives in ...

QUETTA: The shrine of great Balochi Sufi poet of Balochistan, Mast Twakali, was torched by unidentified people in Kohlu district, some 220km away from the provincial capital Quetta. According to local officials, the incident occurred a couple of days back when some unknown people barged into the shrine of Mast Twakali in Mawand area of Kohlu district in the early ...

QUETTA: Unidentified armed men killed two persons and torched a private container in Dhadar area of Bolan district, some 70 kilometers southeast of Quetta, on Sunday. Balochistan Levies sources said that a private container of Afghan trade was heading towards Afghanistan from Karachi when armed men intercepted container on gunpoint at Dhadar area and opened indiscriminate fire. Resultantly, two occupants driver ...

QUETTA: Two people were killed and another wounded in an armed clash between two groups in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, on Sunday. According to police, the armed clash occurred in Muslim Atihad Colony of Quetta that resulted in death of two persons and another sustained serious bullet wounds. Police rushed to the site after the incident and shifted ...