Tag Archives: Governance

Shoaib Durrazai Turbat – Turbat, the home town of Chief Minister (CM) of Balochistan Dr. Malik Baloch is facing 18 hours of electricity load shedding a day. Temperature of Turbat was recorded 45 °C on Tuesday and electricity load shedding caused huge inconvenience for people. Electricity load shedding has resulted in shortage of drinking water, business activity has been badly ...

Quetta – Department of Colleges Higher and Technical Education (College Section) Government of Balochistan has suspended all cabinet members of Balochistan Professors and Lecturers association (BPLA), on Wednesday. BPLA, established in 1995, is the union of all professors and lecturers in colleges of Balochistan. According to the notification of Balochistan government, 11 professors and lecturers were suspended due to violation ...

Sami Parvez Turbat – University of Turbat (UOT) the only university in Makran division of Balochistan is facing plethora of problems, learnt The Balochistan Point. UOT was established as a sub-campus of University of Balochistan in 2009 and it was upgraded to a University by incumbent Balochistan government in 2013. UOT has been dubbed as a change agent for its ...

Adnan Aamir The word Balochistan is synonymous with deprivation in Pakistan. There isn’t a single federal department that is not depriving Balochistan of its legitimate rights. Now, Civil Aviation Authority and Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) have also joined the ranks of the organizations that are directly responsible for deprivation in Balochistan. A huge number of citizens from Balochistan visit Middle ...

Quetta – Literacy rate in Balochistan has declined by 3% despite the imposition of educational emergency by Balochistan Government, revealed a survey on Wednesday. According to Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey (PSLM) conducted by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), literacy rate in Balochistan has dropped by 3% in the year 2013-14. Current literacy rate in the province stands ...

Adnan Aamir Quetta is the only metropolitan city of Balochistan. People from all around the province visit Quetta for almost everything that is not available in small towns. Passenger buses and mini-wagons are the main source of transportation for people travelling to Quetta. For the last 20 days, transporters in Quetta have been on strike due to a bus stand ...

Adnan Aamir Sajid Baloch works as a construction worker in Dubai and visits his family in Balochistan, once in six months. He used to fly directly from Quetta, his hometown, to Dubai through Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flights. Life was easy for him back then but not anymore. When he visited his home in April this year, He had to ...

Quetta – Recruitment test for vacancies in education department in Killa Saifullah District was marred with massive irregularities, on Sunday. Balochistan government had announced to hold recruitment test for 4,359 vacancies in education department through National Testing Service (NTS), in order to ensure transparency. NTS test for Killa Saifullah took place on Sunday where massive irregularities during the test were ...

Quetta – Federal government is taking decisions that are depriving Balochistan of its legitimate rights, learnt The Balochistan Point. Federal government had stopped release of funds of Rs. 15 billion that were approved during visit of Prime Minister to Quetta last month. This issue was raised by Provincial Minister Sardar Aslam Bizenjo in Balochistan Assembly on Monday. “I have been ...

Quetta – Students of Bolan Medical College (BMC) have demanded the dismissal of their principal, on Sunday. Students of BMC protested against the attitude of their principal and also chanted slogans against mismanagement and incompetence of the principal. According to protestors, Entry test of students in BMC was conducted in December last year but classes of the new batch have ...