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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Thousands of right-winger and under the banner of the Defence of Pakistan Council (DPC), the amalgamation of religious and political groups, have organized vowed to resist NATO supply into Afghanistan. The much-hyped long march was concluded outside the parliament amidst overwhelmingly heightened security measures. Thousands of hyperactive workers of banned outfits reached Islamabad in a […]
Jul 10 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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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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Quetta: Bomb explosion kills six Quetta: (Thursday, June 28, 2012) As the worrisome law and order situation in Balochistan deteriorates further, a bomb blast near Hazar Ganji area leaves at least six dead. The rescue sources are of the view that many of the targeted bus passengers are in critical condition and the death toll […]
Jun 28 2012 | Posted in
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Chief of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PKMAP), Mehmood Khan Achakzai has stressed for a new social contract between major national stakeholders. Addressing a public gathering, he said that this was quite imperative, in view of constant threatening global gestures that rulers, politicians, armed forces and intelligence agencies of the country should evolve such a social […]
Jun 26 2012 | Posted in
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Teacher murdered in Quetta Quetta: (Tuesday, June 19, 2012) Unknown gunmen here today killed a school teacher at Arbab Karam Khan Road and escaped from the scene. According to police officials, unidentified miscreants riding motorcycle opened fire on a high school teacher who died on the spot. Police, later, shifted his body to the hospital. […]
Jun 19 2012 | Posted in
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Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has sought Google’s help to address the key issue of cross-border movement across the Durand-line; the line divides Pakistan and Afghanistan. His statement comes at a time when relations between Pakistan and the United States remain on a sour note. Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Emerson Schmidt called on Prime […]
Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani pointed out external elements working in Balochistan, saying that these forces have set their eyes on the precious natural resources of the province. The premier, who is currently visiting the province, termed the people of Balochistan as patriotic citizens of the country. He observed, “Balochistan is close to my […]