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Three School Teachers Kidnapped in Khuzdar

K HUZDAR: The Khuzdar police  said on Tuesday that it had registered a case reporting the kidnapping of at least three school teachers. A resident of Khuzdar, Syed Mehboob Shah, has filed the first investigation report (F.I.R.) at the City Police Station Khuzdar saying that his son, Saeed Shahmir and his colleagues Liquat Ali and Jamil Ahmed, who are all teachers by profession at ...

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Remembering Professor Saba Dashtiari

J  une 1st marks the second death anniversary of Prof. Saba Dashtiri. Born in Karachi in 1953, Saba, served Balochi literature for three decades. He was simultaneously, a fiction writer, poet, critic, research scholar and above all an intellectual with liberal espousal. He has to his credit more than a dozen of books ranging from literature to philosophy and religion. ...

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Earthquake devastation in Balochistan

By: Yousaf Ajab Baloch Earthquake in Balochistan has left a great suffering for the people of district Washuk in Maskel city. The recent natural calamity is going to turn in to human made disasters because of no remarkable relief activities. The government authorities have sufficed with only few activities for mitigation of the victim’s suffering. The controversial statements of government ...

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140 Missing Children in Balochistan

Balochistan, already having the myriad of issues is now confronting another worrisome situation i.e. the rapid increase in the incidents of kidnapping children, 3 to 12 years, in provincial metropolis. Within one and half month   140 children have been reported missing or abducted. The abduction in the city and sense of insecurity have bewildered parents to avoided sending children to ...

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A Daughter’s Struggle for Her Father’s Safe Recovery

By Yousaf Ajab Baloch Restlessness, worries and agony of a little girl become beyond measure when she loses her doll or another thing that she loves to spend time with, playing and amusing herself. But one fails to translate the sentiments of a little girl who has lost her father at an age when she should be playing and studying. ...

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Malnutrition plagues children in Balochistan

By: Yousaf Ajab Baloch Suffering is synonymous with the people of Balochistan, as are disasters. They come in the form of the wrath of nature, or at the hands of human beings. The lack of planning for disaster risk reduction or emergency-based support reflects the disinterest of authorities. It seems as if the functionaries are only concerned with the region’s ...

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