Quetta, May 1 (IANS) The Baloch Republican Guards (BRG) on Friday claimed responsibility for an attack on April 29 that damaged machinery at a road construction site near Pat Feeder Peropol in the Pakistani provincial city of Dera Murad Jamali, local media reported.According to police officials, unidentified attackers fired rockets at the site, which destroyed machinery and forced work to stop. They added that an investigations were underway and no casualties were reported, the Balochistan Post …
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Quetta, Feb 19 (IANS) Families of Baloch missing persons held a protest outside the Karachi Press Club against what they termed a fake encounter of a young man who had been previously forcibly disappeared and was later killed in a staged police operation, local media reported. The protesters stated that the authorities were not giving the body of the deceased to his family.During the protest, a large number of women and children held placards and demanded justice. Protesters said 24-year-old stu…
Islamabad, Feb 6 (IANS) Over 15 people were killed and more than 80 injured after a powerful explosion rocked an imambargah in Islamabad’s Tarlai area during Friday prayers, triggering massive panic in the Pakistani capital local media reported. “The death toll from the explosion in the federal capital has risen to 15, according to a spokesperson for the District Administration. The spokesperson further confirmed that the number of patients brought to various hospitals across the city has now ex…
Quetta, Jan 27 (IANS) Workers of the Balochistan Employees Grand Alliance (BEGA) held protest rallies in Pakistan’s Quetta and Khuzdar for raising their demands, including the grant of the disparity reduction allowance, local media reported on Tuesday. The BEGA employees held a rally from Bacha Khan Chowk to the City Police Station in Quetta. After reaching the police station, the demonstrators held a sit-in and shouted slogans against the government, as the authorities had refused to agree to t…
Quetta, Jan 22 (IANS) The Unemployed Pharmacists’ Action Committee in Pakistan’s Balochistan have criticised government’s decision to announce a limited number of vacancies for more than 2,000 unemployed pharmacists, terming it “equivalent to offering a pinch of cumin to a camel,” local media reported on Thursday. While addressing a press briefing at the Quetta Press Club on Wednesday, UPAC General Secretary Qasim Aziz Mengal termed the decision unacceptable and called for creation of more p…
Quetta, Jan 9 (IANS) Leading human rights organisation, Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), on Friday demanded an end to enforced disappearances in Pakistan’s Balochistan province and called for the release of two men who were abducted recently. According to the statement released by the VBMP, a person identified as Kaleemullah, a resident of Khudabadan Panjgoor, was abducted from Allahabad Town of Balochistan’s Hub Chowki on January 7. The VBMP demanded the release of Kaleemullah and an en…
Quetta, Jan 4 (IANS) Pakistan’s Balochistan witnessed a rise in enforced disappearances, an escalation of state repression, and further restrictions on political activists in 2025. The forcible disappearance of students, political activists and relatives of people related to Balochistan resistance continued and the cases of enforced disappearances of women have increased in Balochistan, local media reported on Sunday. In 2025, more than 10 women were subjected to enforced disappearance and eight…
Quetta, Jan 3 (IANS) Pakistan’s Punjab province is facing a severe economic crisis due to the prolonged closures of border crossings with Afghanistan, with monthly losses estimated at more than Pakistani rupees 80 billion, a report said on Saturday, citing the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI). According to LCCI President Faheem-ur-Rehman Saigol, the continued closure of trade routes has severely disrupted bilateral trade, with cement and agricultural chemicals sectors among the h…
Quetta, Jan 2 (IANS) Two more Baloch civilians were forcibly disappeared by Pakistani forces amid a growing wave of enforced disappearances across Balochistan, a leading human rights organisation said on Friday. Condemning the incidents, Paank, the Baloch National Movement’s Human Rights Department, mentioned that Hamdan, a native of Dasht in Kech District, was reportedly taken from his residence in Karachi on December 30 by the state intelligence agencies.The rights body described the act as “a…
Quetta, Dec 29 (IANS) The Grand Alliance of Balochistan government employees on Monday announced a pen-down strike to hold a protest for their demands, including payment of a Disparity Reduction Allowance, local media reported. In a statement, Balochistan Grand Alliance General Secretary Ali Asghar Bangulzai stated that the protest of the employees has entered the second phase due to the “government’s apathy and incompetence,” Pakistan’s leading daily Dawn reported.He stated that the government …