In another bid to woo back the angry nationalist leaders, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has said that the government was ready to accept legitimate demands of dissident Baloch people. While co-chairing the Balochistan cabinet meeting with Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani, the recently elected premier said that the Baloch were patriotic Pakistanis. In his […]
In a clear warning to the government, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that the judiciary will not tolerate any unconstitutional steps taken by the executive or legislature. Addressing the Balochistan High Court (BHC) Association, the chief justice said that only rule acceptable was that of law and the Constitution. He observed, “Judiciary has […]
Quetta: (Thursday, July 12, 2012) Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, while hearing the law and order situation in Balochistan, said commented that the police has completely failed to maintain the law and order in the province. The three member bench, headed by the chief justice and comprising Justice khilji Arif Hussain and […]
Jul 12 2012 | Posted in
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Quetta: (Wednesday, July 11, 2012) Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who is in Quetta these days to here the missing persons case along with the suo moto notice on law and order situation in Balochistan, said here today that the problems Baloch people facing these days could have been amicably resolved had there been a […]
Giving another deadline to security agencies, Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry ordered the authorities concerned to recover all missing persons within a week. Hearing a case pertaining to law and order situation in Balochistan, the chief justice summoned DIG Frontier Constabulary Farrogh Shezad to appear in court on Wednesday. He also directed the […]
Jul 11 2012 | Posted in
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Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that the Frontier Corps (FC) is being involved in abduction of one out of every three Baloch men. A three-member bench headed by the Chief Justice resumed the hearing of the Balochistan unrest case at the Supreme Court’s Quetta registry. The CJ observed, “I have no answer to […]
Jul 9 2012 | Posted in
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Advisor to Prime Minister on Interior Affairs, Rehman Malik on Saturday directed DG FIA (Federal Investigation Agency) to submit an immediate report over killing spree in Turbat. In what appeared to be an ethnically-motivated attack, unidentified gunmen on Friday killed a group of would-be migrants in Turbat district near the Iranian border. Malik while condemning […]
Jul 7 2012 | Posted in
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Rejecting the request of the government to give more names, Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said that he would stick to the names he had already proposed to a parliamentary committee for appointment of new chief election commissioner (CEC). Terming the government’s proposal to add more names to broaden the […]
Jul 3 2012 | Posted in
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Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif has said that people of Balochistan have first and foremost right over the Gwadar port, adding that they should be permitted to harvest all or most of its remuneration. While addressing a conference on Gwadar, the former two-time prime minister vowed that he will pay special attention for […]
Jul 3 2012 | Posted in
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In order to win back the people of Balochistan, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Monday said the government despite its financial constraints will continue appropriate funding for public welfare programmes of the province. While presiding a high-level meeting on Balochistan, the newly elected premier reviewed the law and order situation, progress on Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan package […]
The gruesome incident in which a bus of Shia pilgrims was attacked in Quetta coupled with numerous others in Balochistan over the past few months is part of baleful conspiracy to divide the country vertically and horizontally. More than dozen people, who were returning from Iran, were lost their lives while another 30 sustained severe […]
Terming the incident barbaric and crucify, Imran Khan, the cricketer-turned-politician, has strongly condemned attack on a bus carrying Shia-pilgrims from Iran to Quetta which led to loss of 15 innocent lives. In his view, the attack was part of a systematic wave of violent incident against Hazara community whose 60 people have been brutally killed […]
Jun 30 2012 | Posted in
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