New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) The Great Nicobar Island Development Project is not merely an infrastructure initiative but India’s strategic response to counter growing Chinese footprint across the Indian Ocean by unlocking the potential of one of the most strategically valuable locations in the Indo-Pacific region, a report has detailed. The report in ‘Global Order’ mentioned that India has now introduced a new strategic variable into the Indo-Pacific chessboard from an advantageous geographic posi…
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Quetta, May 13 (IANS) As many as 34 Afghan nationals have been arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for entering Pakistan and travelling towards Balochistan’s Gwadar without necessary documents, local media reported on Wednesday. The FIA spokesman said its Turbat wing carried out a raid at the CPEC road area after receiving a tip-off and arrested 34 undocumented Afghan nationals who were allegedly trying to enter Iran through the Gwadar area, Pakistan’s daily Dawn reported.The arre…
Quetta, May 8 (IANS) The Baloch Republican Guards (BRG) claimed responsibility for attacks in Balochistan’s Sibi and Sohbatpur districts, completely destroying two electricity towers and damaging two others, while causing casualties and material losses to Pakistani Rangers, according to local media reports.In a statement issued to the media on Thursday, BRG spokesperson Dostain Baloch said the group’s fighters planted explosives in the Lemji area of Sibi on the night of May 6, resulting in t…
Quetta, May 6 (IANS) A leading human rights organisation on Wednesday expressed serious concern over escalating abuses of Baloch civilians by Pakistani forces, citing a pattern of targetted killings and the subsequent dumping of mutilated bodies in Balochistan between January and April this year. In its thematic report titled ‘Kill and Dump Policy in Balochistan’, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) documented 43 victims of “kill and dump” in 2026 identified by their families, along with 21 case…
Quetta, May 6 (IANS) As violence against civilians escalate across Balochistan, a leading human rights organisation brought to light the extrajudicial killing of two civilians and enforced disappearance of four others, allegedly at the hands of Pakistani forces.Condemning the brutal incidents, Paank, the Baloch National Movement’s Human Rights Department, mentioned that the bullet-riddled bodies of Ajmal Baloch and Saeed Ahmed were dumped on May 3 in the Nalent area of Pasni in the Gwadar distri…
Quetta, April 30 (IANS) A Baloch student organisation on Thursday expressed grave concern over a large number of curriculum books found discarded as waste in Balochistan’s Gwadar district. Sharing a video on social media platform X, which showed piles of curriculum books of the Balochistan Textbooks Board lying in garbage, the Baloch Students Action Committee (BSAC) said that these books were printed and distributed in Gwadar for the 2024-25 academic year.However, the group stated that the boo…
Quetta, April 19 (IANS) Officials of the National Highway Authority (NHA) have stated that Pakistan’s Balochistan province was given only Pakistani Rupees (PKR) 20 million from the national annual revenue pool of PKR 130 billion despite the province having over 4,000 kilometres of national highways, local media reported. NHA officials made the statement during an interactive session with office-bearers and members of the Quetta Chamber of Commerce and Industry, where National Highway Authority G…
Islamabad, April 19 (IANS) Nighttime fishing bans have been imposed by the Pakistani authorities across Balochistan’s coastal district of Gwadar, further impacting the livelihoods of fishermen, who are already suffering due to repeated restrictions, according to local media reports. The authorities cited the prevailing “security situation” for the restrictions.The directives issued by the fisheries department stated that fishing has been prohibited within a one nautical mile radius along the coa…
Quetta, April 16 (IANS) Three Baloch young men have reportedly been forcibly disappeared in overnight raids in Pakistan, sparking fresh concerns over enforced disappearances, local media reported on Thursday. As per reports, Zubair Baloch, a Baloch student, was taken from his home in Dera Ghazi Khan area of Pakistan during the early hours of Wednesday, The Balochistan Post reported.In a post on X, Baloch Student Council, Punjab, stated, “Zubair Baloch, son of Ghulam Fareed, former chairman of Ba…
Quetta, April 16 (IANS) Armed men allegedly linked to Pakistani forces are impersonating as Baloch pro-independence fighters and harassing people in parts of Kharan district in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, local residents have claimed. According to the residents, the said men identified themselves as “sarmachars”, a term commonly used for Baloch armed fighters, while travelling through different parts of the district and threatening people, The Balochistan Post reported.They alleged that the…