NEW DELHI: At least four children were killed and 38 others injured on Wednesday after a suicide car bomber targeted a school bus in the restive Khuzdar district of southwestern Pakistan’s Balochistan province, officials said.Several of the injured are in critical condition, and the death toll is expected to rise.The bus was ferrying children to […]
Four people died and 20 were injured in a car bomb explosion on Sunday night, in Qillah Abdullah, a city in Balochistan province bordering Afghanistan. Several shops and the outer wall of a nearby building housing paramilitary forces were damaged. No group has claimed responsibility for the bombing, according to deputy commissioner Abdullah Riaz, news […]
BALOCHISTAN: Protests erupted across Balochistan and parts of Karachi on Friday, following allegations of torture and mistreatment of detained Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) leaders by Pakistani authorities, The Balochistan Post reported.The demonstrations were organised by the BYC in response to reports that three prominent leaders – Mahrang Baloch, Beebow Baloch, and Gulzadi Baloch – were […]
Two Pakistani police officers were shot dead on Wednesday while protecting a polio vaccination team in the Teeri area of Mastung district in Balochistan, officials confirmed, marking the second fatal attack on such teams since the nationwide inoculation drive began earlier this week.According to local administrator Manan Tareen, the attack occurred when two unidentified gunmen […]
Three people forcibly disappeared by Pakistani forces in Balochistan: Report (Picture credit: ANI) BALOCHISTAN: Three individuals were reportedly forcibly disappeared by Pakistani forces in separate incidents across Balochistan. The incidents took place in Pasni, Turbat, and Quetta towns of Balochistan between April 14-15, The Balochistan Post reported.In Pasni, Gwadar district, personnel from the Counter-Terrorism Department […]
NEW DELHI: The Bloach rebels hijacked Pakistan‘s Jaffar Express last month using US weapons, which American forces left behind during the hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, reported Washington Post.Weapons were left behind by United States forces following their 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. Among the weapons recovered from the scene was an M4A1 carbine rifle […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s aggressive push for international investment in its mines and minerals sector has ignited a firestorm of dissent in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) regions.The Pakistan Minerals Investment Forum 2025, held in Islamabad on April 8-9, was billed as a golden opportunity to unlock “trillions of dollars” of the country’s […]
ISLAMABAD: A tense standoff unfolded across Balochistan on Monday as a shutter-down strike and widespread road blockades sparked by nationalist leader Sardar Akhtar Mengal’s call for a “long march” from Lakpass to Quetta paralysed the Pakistani province.The protest by Akhtar’s Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M), now in its second week, demands the release of detained Baloch […]
ISLAMABAD: A wave of violence swept through Balochistan, with a bomb blast shaking the province’s capital of Quetta Thursday following the overnight targeted killing of five non-Baloch passengers on a highway in Gwadar, intensifying growing unrest in Pakistan’s southwest.The blast occurred near a police vehicle and left three dead and 21 injured, including several police […]
Balochistan government tightens control, decides to suppress dissent with stringent measures (Picture credit: ANI) QUETTA: The Balochistan government, under the leadership of chief minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti, has decided to take stringent measures against government employees involved in anti-state activities, as reported by ARY News. In a high-level meeting chaired by CM Bugti, which was […]
