New Delhi: Prominent Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jehangir wants Pakistan to put its act together for a time-bound mechanism to address the unrest in Balochistan while appealing for stopping "hair-raising" atrocities in the troubled province. Jehangir, who is in India as part of a delegation of Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan (SCBAP) attending a seminar organised by Supreme Court Bar Association, said her country was going through a...
12:20 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Lahore: Continuing his tirade against US and India, Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has warned the two countries to stop their alleged efforts to "separate Balochistan from Pakistan" threatening a backlash. Addressing a gathering of Defa-e-Pakistan Council, a grouping of over 40 hardline and extremist groups cobbled together by Saeed, he said, "While you are sitting in Afghanistan, you should refrain from making efforts...
12:59 PM, Mar 10, 2012
Islamabad A Baloch nationalist leader based in Switzerland has welcomed a bill moved in the US Congress seeking the right to self-determination for the Baloch people, saying he would support any foreign intervention in the restive Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan. Brahamdagh Bugti, the chief of the Baloch Republican Party, said the US must intervene in Balochistan and stop the ethnic cleansing of Baloch people . Addressing reporters at Quetta...
02:33 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Islamabad: Unidentified armed men kidnapped a Hindu trader in the restive Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan on Sunday, police said. Sham Lal was travelling with his family to Karachi when the armed men intercepted his car in Rashidabad area of Khuzdar district and took him away to an unknown location. Following the incident, the local traders association and Hindu businessmen protested the kidnapping and demanded that authorities should steps to...
08:05 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Islamabad: Five paramilitary personnel were killed when gunmen attacked a check post in the restive Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan on Thursday, officials said. The gunmen opened fire on the check post manned by Frontier Corps personnel in Sui area of Dera Bugti district. Five Frontier Corps personnel were killed instantly, officials were quoted as saying by TV news channels. The attackers escaped after the incident. No group claimed responsibility...
12:21 PM, Jan 26, 2012
Islamabad: Days before Pervez Musharraf's planned return to Pakistan from self-exile, a grandson of slain Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Bugti has put a bounty worth Rs 10.1 crore on the former military ruler's head. "We will give Rs 1 million (10 lakh) in cash and a bungalow worth Rs 100 million (10 crore) to anybody who kills Musharraf. And we'll also provide him full security," Shahzain Bugti said at Pir...
03:33 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Karachi: Pakistan's minority Hindus protested outside Balochistan provincial assembly in Quetta against increasing incidents of abduction of community members for ransom in the province, close on the heels of a young trader's murder after his family failed to pay money to his kidnappers. The Hindus staged the protest on Friday after marching through different parts of the city, a month after organising similar rallies in Sindh following the killing of...
02:03 PM, Dec 24, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistani security forces on Saturday took control of a strategically important airbase in the country's southwest after US military personnel vacated the facility in line with a demand from the Pakistan government. Pakistan had asked the US to vacate Shamsi airbase in Balochistan province after a cross-border NATO attack on two border posts killed 24 soldiers on November 26. The US had been using the airbase since late 2001...
10:29 PM, Dec 10, 2011
Islamabad: In a second major attack in as many days, suspected militants in Pakistan's restive southwest Balochistan province on Tuesday attacked a group of Chinese engineers being escorted by security forces, killing five persons and injuring 11 others. The Chinese engineers escaped unhurt in the attack in which three security personnel were among those killed, officials were quoted as saying by TV news channels. The incident occurred in Dera Bugti...
02:56 PM, Nov 22, 2011
Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari has sought a report on the killing of three Hindu brothers, who were doctors, in Pakistan's Sindh province. Ajit Kumar and his two brothers, Ashok and Naresh, were gunned down in Shikarpur district. Zardari has taken a serious note of the attack and sought an immediate report, reported Associated Press of Pakistan. The president's spokesperson Farhatullah Babar said Zardari had asked for immediate arrest of...
11:20 AM, Nov 08, 2011
Islamabad: Bike-borne unidentified gunmen on Tuesday shot dead at least 26 Shia Muslim pilgrims in cold-blood in southwest Pakistan's Balochistan province after forcing them out of a bus. A bus carrying Shia pilgrims, which was going from provincial capital Quetta to the border town of Taftan, was stopped by the gunmen in Mastung district of Balochistan, an area considered to be the hub of banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. The gunmen ordered the...
07:23 PM, Sep 20, 2011
Karachi: Unidentified gunmen on Friday killed seven Shia pilgrims in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province while seven people died in ethnic and sectarian violence in the country's financial capital in the last 24 hours. The Shia pilgrims were killed at a bus stand in Saryab district of Balochistan's provincial capital Quetta in the afternoon, according to police officials. "They were waiting for a bus preparing to go to Iran for a...
09:46 PM, Jul 29, 2011
Islamabad: Suspected militants carried out two attacks on NATO supply vehicles in Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing a driver and destroying a container truck and an oil tanker. A driver was killed when suspected militants attacked an oil tanker carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan in the Mian Ghundi suburb of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan. Police said four attackers riding on two motorbikes first killed...
10:05 PM, Jun 19, 2011
Actor Imran Khan is doing more than just acting, he filed a PIL against the Maharashtra government's decision to raise the age limit for alcohol consumption from 21 to 25. ...
09:16 PM, Jun 17, 2011
Islamabad: Over 100 Hindu families in Pakistan's Balochistan province are making efforts to migrate to India after becoming the target of a campaign of kidnappings and extortion, according to a media report today. The Hindus of southwestern Balochistan have been hit hardest by incidents of abduction for ransom and extortion, with the records of the province's Home Department showing that a large number of the 291 people abducted last year...
01:01 PM, Jan 03, 2011
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