All Parties Conference on Balochistan issue would be held in Quetta on February 27 under the auspices of Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC). The leader of Difa-e-Pakistan Council and Ameer Jamat-ud-Dawa, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed said this after arriving Quetta on Saturday. He told the reporters that entire political leadership of the country has been invited in APC […]
Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has said that the recommendations of the parliamentary committee regarding normalization of ties with the US and NATO supplies would be tabled in the joint sitting of the parliament after Senate elections. While addressing a press conference at Prime Minister House, the premier said Pakistan wants to maintain relations […]
After a short break, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) heads back to Sindh for a rally, planning to focus on the province’s major political concerns in the months ahead. A group of followers of PTI vice chairperson Shah Mehmood Qureshi organized the rally in Umerkot. Qureshi has served foreign minister as leader of the Pakistan People’s […]
The government will not have to miss the fact that the situation in Balochistan has reached grievous levels. The issue of Balochistan has been in the media across the globe and also has been taken up by the US House of Representatives. In what appeared to be a critical phase, the government decided to move […]
In order to appease sentiments of the estranged Baloch leaders, President Asif Ali Zardari entrusted Balochistan Governor Zulfiqar Ali Magsi to engage them and bring them to the all-parties huddle on the province. The president observed that he himself will meet the alienated leaders in order to bring them back in the mainstream politics. He […]
To the Point – Shortcomings of the Baloch Nationalists Balochistan, the biggest province of Pakistan, has unfortunately faced numerous problems and issues since the separation of united India back in 1947, but nowadays for some apparent reason, it seems like the situation has reached new peaks with countries announcing their support for a free and […]
In what appeared to be a good-will gesture, the government quashed all the cases against Brahamdagh Bugti and other Baloch leaders in line with its policy of reconciliation. Despite heightened urgency, the incumbent seems to have taken some frantic steps to break a crippling standoff on Balochistan. Federal Interior Minister on Thursday observed, “All cases […]
US business tycoon, Mansoor Ijaz, the man who architected the memogate controversy, made a much-awaited testimony before the judicial commission constituted by the Supreme Court to probe the matter. His testimony will continue on Thursday at Pakistan’s High Commission in London. On the other, the Memo Commission is reviewing the applications filed by Husain Haqqani’s […]
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Lashing out at America, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said that the United States should force India to stop barbarities in Indian administered Kashmir rather than interfering in the internal matter of Pakistan. Fazlur Rehman, who is also the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir, released the statement at a time […]
In what appeared to be a quite hard-line stance by the PML-N, Mian Nawaz Sharif has rolled out two non-negotiable conditions for ensuring his party’s participation in an All Parties Conference (APC) on Balochistan. He has made his party’s participation in the proposed APC conditional to the arrest of Nawab Akbar Bugti’s killers and recovery […]
Imran Khan, the Pakistan’s new political sensation and chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has said that talks with the Taliban is only solution to end war on terror, saying he would holds negotiations with them if he is given mandate to do so. While interviewing to Gulf News, the cricket-turned politician observed, “I can talk […]
Brahamdagh Bugti, the self-exiled chief of Baloch Republican Party (BPP), seconded the US Congressional hearing and resolution on Balochistan tabled in the house, welcoming all foreign interventions in the region whether it is by the NATO forces, India or the US. The Baloch nationalist leader while addressing a telephonic news conference at the Quetta Press […]