Quetta, then and now on May 24, 2018Every other day, Quetta bleeds. Someday, it is a sectarian attack that kills people and another day, it is the target killing of law-enforcement agencies or settlers from the Punjab. Bullet-riddled bodies are found everywhere. Quetta, surrounded by dry Rocky Mountains and blessed with a beautiful landscape, until a few decades ago, used to be […]
Quetta, then and now on May 23, 2018Every other day, Quetta bleeds. Someday, it is a sectarian attack that kills people and another day, it is the target killing of law-enforcement agencies or settlers from the Punjab. Bullet-riddled bodies are found everywhere. Quetta, surrounded by dry Rocky Mountains and blessed with a beautiful landscape, until a few decades ago, used to be […]
Man from Quetta tours Pakistan on his motorbike on May 23, 2018A man belonging from Quetta, promoting the message of Peaceful Pakistan & Peaceful Balochistan on his motorcycle, toured all of Pakistan, after finally reaching his hometown. Abdullah travelled 132 cities of Pakistan in just 47 days. The people and civil society members welcomed him and appreciated his efforts for promoting a soft image of the […]
CTD seizes huge cache of arms, explosives in Quetta on May 22, 2018QUETTA: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Monday raided a hide-out being used as a weapon factory in Kili Barat area of Quetta and confiscated 200kg of explosives, three suicide jackets, detonators, two hand grenades and a huge cache of arms. It was said that the hide-out was being used as a weapon factory by Balochistan […]
Balochistan CM’s aide Ruqayya Hashmi resigns on May 21, 2018Adviser to Balochistan Chief Minister on Finance Dr Ruqayya Saeed Hashmi Sunday said that she had resigned from the post against what she described as use of abusive language against her by one of her colleagues in the Balochistan Assembly during the budget session. According to sources, Hashmi had submitted her resignation to the Balochistan […]
Prayer leader shot dead in Quetta on May 20, 2018Armed assailants gunned down a prayer leader in a suspected sectarian attack in Quetta on Saturday. According to initial reports, unidentified assailants fired gunshots at Maulana Habibullah when he was on his way home after Zuhr prayers in Saryab Road area of the provincial capital. The prayer leader died on the spot. The body was […]
LeJ Balochistan chief killed in operation on May 18, 2018ISLAMABAD: Security forces on Wednesday killed a high-value target of banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), along with two other suspected terrorists involved in the killings of more than 100 innocent people of the Hazara community as well as police personnel, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement. “Security Forces conducted an IBO [intelligence-based […]
Cadet college principal arrested after ‘students punished at his behest’ on May 16, 2018The Balochistan High Court was told on Tuesday that the principal of Cadet College Mastung had been arrested after a video of corporal punishment being administered to the institutions students went viral on social media. “The principal of Mastung Cadet College, Javed Iqbal Bangash, has been arrested on the court’s orders,” Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) DIG […]
Two-day Quetta Literary Festival kicks off on May 8, 2018QUETTA: The two-day Quetta Literary Festival (QLF) kicked off at Balochistan University of Information Technology & Management Sciences (BUITEMS) on Monday. On the first day, thousands of people attended sessions where renowned writers, poets, artists, women right activists, journalists, national and international scholars and experts spoke on different topics. The session named “When Peripheries Recede […]
‘Nawaz, Imran concerned just with power; Missing persons, lynched bodies not on their agenda’ on May 5, 2018Quetta: “Those who haven’t lost loved ones don’t care if the National Action Plan (NAP) is not implemented. We have lifted bodies of our leaders and workers who lost their lives to terrorism. We will keep raising our voice until the NAP is fullyimplemented,” Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Friday. He […]