Tag Archives: Protest

Sami Parvez Turbat – Haqooq Teacher’s Association (HTA) Kech protested against delay in upgradation of teachers outside Turbat Press Club, on Monday. HTA is the association of the teachers recruited under Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan Package. Protestors were carrying placards that read slogans against bureaucracy for delaying the upgradation of package teachers into BPS-17 scale. “We are serving in BPS-16 for last three ...

Gwadar – Employees of Gwadar Development Authority (GDA) Public Higher Secondary School protested against the unjust treatment of local employees, on Monday. Employees of GDA Public Higher Secondary school, both academic and non-academic, protested outside the main office of GDA. Employees protested against the unjust attitude of GDA administration in the form of terminating a local teacher, suspending the office ...

Sami Parvez Turbat – Kech Bar Association (KBA) has announced a full-court boycott in the district to protest the non-availability of District Public Prosecutor. Position of District Public Prosecutors in Kech is lying vacant for a long time and it has resulted in paralyzing the legal system. Many cases are pending in session court of Kech only due to non-availability ...

Hassan Baloch Chagai – Employees of Saindak copper-gold project have protested against poor treatment meted out to them by administration of the project, on Saturday. Main reasons for protests of employees are the poor food being provided to them and the unhygienic water that they drink while working for the project. Saindak Copper-gold project, situated in Chagai district bordering Iran ...

Quetta – Acting organizer of Balochistan National Party (BNP), Senator Dr. Jehanzeb Jamaldini expressed his disappointment on report of judicial commission to probe election rigging. Addressing a press conference in Quetta Press Club on Thursday evening, Senator Jamaldini alleged that systematic rigging was conducted to defeat BNP in 2013 elections. “Dynamics of election rigging in Balochistan were different from Punjab ...

Quetta – Civil society of Balochistan has vowed to resist the closure of operations of Save the Children in Balochistan. Decision by Save The Children to close all its operations in Balochistan has been severely criticized by Civil society in Balochistan. “As a result of closing operations in Balochistan, hundreds of people would lose their jobs and billions of rupees ...

Hassan Baloch Nok Kundi – Women and children in Nok Kundi town of district Chagai protested against shortage of drinking water, on Sunday. Nok Kundi is a border town situated adjacent to Afghanistan border in district Chagai. People of Chagai are facing shortage of drinking water for last 2 months. Protestors chanted slogans against Public Health Engineering (PHE) department and ...

Shoaib Durrazai Turbat – National Party (NP) and BSO-Pajjar Makran Zone held a protest against attack on the house of Dr. Yasin Baloch outside Turbat Press club, on Friday. Dr. Yasin Baloch is the secretary General of NP and his house in Turbat was attacked by unknown persons earlier this week. Protestors chanted slogans against the attack and termed it ...

 Quetta – Female students of University of Balochistan (UOB) taking annual exams of Masters in Education (M.Ed) announced to boycott the exams due to frisking by male invigilators. Addressing a press conference in Quetta Press club on Sunday, Female students of UOB lead by Ayesha, Zareen and Asma complained against what they claimed immoral attitude of controller examinations of UOB. ...

Adnan Aamir Quetta – University of Balochistan (UOB) was shut down on Saturday after protest of student’s organization intensified against the administration of the university. UOB is the oldest and largest public sector university in Balochistan that also conduct gradation level examinations of degree colleges in Balochistan. Protests against incumbent Administration of UOB started more than month ago but these ...