Balochistan
Pakistan PM mulling to hold talks with ‘insurgents’ in Balochistan
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 5 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said that he is deliberating to "hold talks with insurgents" in Balochistan as he blamed the previous administration…
Awami Action Committee protest in Skardu over pending developmental projects in Gilgit-Baltistan
Gilgit [PoK], June 5 (ANI): Awami Action Committee (ACC) on Monday organised a protest in Skardu against the Gilgit-Baltistan administration for their long-pending incomplete construction works of developmental projects. The…
Pakistan: EU launches new rule of law programme in KP, Balochistan
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 3 (ANI): The European Union and its partners have launched a programme aiming to promote the rule of law and enhance the criminal justice system in Pakistan,…
Pakistan’s pace of COVID-19 vaccination remains ‘very slow’
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 2 (ANI): Pakistan has vaccinated around five per cent of its total population and 10 per cent of those eligible with at least one dose of a…
Photo exhibition outside UNHRC in Switzerland highlights human rights violations in Pak’s Balochistan
Geneva [Switzerland], June 29 (ANI): A three-day-long photo and poster exhibition in front of the United Nations office in Geneva has highlighted the plight of indigenous Baloch people in Pakistan's…
Iran deports 225 Pakistanis for not possessing valid documents, illegal entry
Balochistan [Pakistan], June 28 (ANI): At least 225 Pakistanis were deported by Iran through the Taftan border crossing in Balochistan province's Chagai district on Monday, after they were arrested for…
‘Pakistan won’t get what it wants after US withdrawal from Afghanistan’
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 20 (ANI): It is becoming increasingly clear that Pakistan, which is caught between a Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's government and its rising mujahidin allies and the Taliban,…
Clashes outside Pak’s Balochistan Assembly as opposition lawmakers protest over unfair distribution of funds
Quetta [Pakistan], June 19 (ANI): Clashes erupted between Opposition lawmakers and supporters with police at the Balochistan Assembly when police arrived at the assembly to open gates that were locked…
Pakistan shuts down 8 Iran-sponsored schools in Balochistan capital
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 18 (ANI): Pakistan has shut down eight Iran-sponsored schools in Balochistan's capital Quetta, adding that these schools were unauthorised and teaching foreign curriculum. Quetta Assistant Commissioner Muhammad…
‘Enforced disappearances’ on the rise in Pakistan’s Balochistan province
Balochistan [Pakistan], June 14 (ANI): The cases of "enforced disappearances" are rising in Pakistan's Balochistan as 16 people were reportedly "abducted" by the country's security forces in the month of…
Amid rhetoric of no foreign boots on ground, Pakistan willing to provide US its military bases
Amid Islamabad's public rhetoric about providing no foreign boots on the ground, Pakistan moves ahead to give Pentagon the access to country's military bases as US troops withdraw from Afghanistan. Earlier,…
