Tags : Balochistan

Balochistan: Young lawyer’s dead body discovered

QUETTA: The lawyers in Balochistan have boycotted court proceedings on Tuesday against the murder of a fellow lawyer in Ziarat Cross are of Quetta. According to details, the dead body of a 30-year-old lawyer, Zamin Khan, was discovered in Ziarat Cross area of Quetta on 6th June. The dead body of the lawyer had bullets […]Read More

Balochistan: Pakistani forces abduct a Baloch trader and lecturer from

QUETTA: Pakistan forces have abducted two Baloch youth from Karachi and Quetta on 31st May and 3rd June respectively. According to details, plain clothed persons have abducted the younger brother of Baloch National Movement’s ex-information secretary from Qazi Dad Rehan. Family sources reported that Mr Qazi Jan Mohammad Kalmati, a resident of Gwadar Balochistan was […]Read More

Balochistan: 14,000 villages have no clean water, Seventy-five percent in

  ZAHIDAN: Alim Yarmohammadi, the representative of Zahedan, capital of Iranian occupied Balochistan, in the parliament, concluding with an implied statement given by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) journalist about the severe poverty and eating of cat’s meat in the villages of Zabul that 75 percent of the people in Sistan and Balochistan […]Read More

Balochistan: Two killed, two wounded and two abducted ahead of

QUETTA: Unknown armed men killed a recently ‘surrendered Baloch fighter’ in Tump region of district Kech Balochistan on Friday, June 1st. According to details, unknown motorcyclists killed Nouroz son of Attaullah resident of Balicha at Kalahu and Raes Abad juncture. Local media reported that the victim previously belonged to a pro-freedom armed group and had recently […]Read More

Ustaad Saba: A preacher of optimism

  By Shaari Baloch  The mother tongue plays a vital role in the development of personal, social and cultural identity of a nation; nonetheless, it requires a proper place in the world in order to pave some ways out for the possibility of contributions by the alumni, undergraduates and postgraduates of that language. The language […]Read More

Far from plain sailing on the Maritime Silk Road

Author: Sinderpal Singh, RSIS China’s South Asian ambitions for its Maritime Silk Road (MSR) have hit foul waters. On the one hand, the MSR must navigate the strategic competition between India and China, and on the other it needs to satisfy the divergent interests of Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka (the South […]Read More

Free Balochistan Movement demands denuclearisation of Pakistan

LONDON: Free Balochistan Movement (FBM) held simultaneous protests, rallies, and awareness campaigns in different cities of the world on Monday, against testing of Pakistan‘s nuclear weapons in Balochistan in 1998. The protests were held on the 20th anniversary of the nuclear tests, codenamed Chagai-1. In the UK, the USA, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Canada, Norway and Sweden, the FBM activists highlighted the […]Read More

Chagai: The Fukushima and Chernobyl of Balochistan

By Shahdad Baloch On May 28, 1998, the Pakistani army has carried out series of atomic explosions in district Chagai Balochistan – the district which is abundant with porous rock – owing to which the Geologists believe that the tests have not only caused a decline in groundwater but have also contaminated both surface and […]Read More