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 […]
