Families of those killed in last week's bombing in Quetta have refused to bury the dead as a mark of protest. 89 Shia muslims were killed in the blast and 200 others were injured. ...
09:42 AM, Feb 19, 2013
The death toll in a devastating bomb attack that targeted Shia Hazaras in Quetta city of southwestern Pakistan rose to 81 as several persons died in hospital and bodies were pulled out of the rubble of collapsed buildings, officials said. About 40 people were killed instantly when hundreds of kilograms of explosives hidden in a water tank loaded on a tractor-trolley were detonated in a busy market at Kirani Road...
01:50 PM, Feb 17, 2013
At least five persons were injured on Tuesday when a bomb went off at an animal market on the outskirts of Quetta city in Southwest Pakistan. The incident occurred at the market in Sibbi Road, a suburb of the capital of Balochistan province. ...
11:17 AM, Jan 15, 2013
The Pakistan government has imposed governor's rule in the troubled province of Baluchistan after dissolving the ruling provincial government. Prime Minister, Raja Pervez Ashraf made the announcement late Sunday night after prolonged talks with Hazara Shia leaders who were staging a sit-in to demand the dismissal of provincial government and the army control of Quetta. ...
07:40 AM, Jan 14, 2013
A series of six bomb blasts in two Pakistani cities left over 103 people dead on Thursday and over 270 injured. Twin suicide attacks that were a few minutes apart ripped through Balochistan's capital Quetta while the second attack was in Swat valley where the explosion took place in the basement of a religious seminary. ...
09:19 AM, Jan 11, 2013
A suicide bomber driving a vehicle packed with explosives rammed into a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims in southwest Pakistan on December 30, killing 19 people, a government official and eyewitnesses said. Earlier on Dec 30, 21 tribal policemen believed to have been kidnapped by the Taliban were found shot dead in Pakistan's troubled northwest tribal region, government officials said. ...
04:02 PM, Dec 30, 2012
Police say gunmen killed a provincial government spokesman in southwest Pakistan in an apparent sectarian attack and then shot to death two nearby policemen. Police official Hamid Shakeel says the attackers shot dead Khadim Hussain Noori on Monday in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province. ...
12:05 PM, Dec 17, 2012
Islamabad: Gunmen attacked a bus in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province on Friday, killing at least 18 people including a woman and a child, police said. Most of the victims died from fire caused by the attack at a petrol station in Khuzdar, a town about a four-hour drive from Quetta. The fire engulfed the van, the petrol station and four nearby shops. No further details were available. Several militant groups...
04:26 AM, Nov 03, 2012
Quetta: Gunmen on motorcycles attacked a bus in southwestern Pakistan near the Iranian border on Friday, killing 18 people and wounding two, Pakistani police said. The attack occurred when the bus, which was heading for Iran, stopped at a roadside shop in the Kech area of Baluchistan province, the police said. They said six gunmen were involved. No further details were immediately available. Several militant groups are active in Baluchistan,...
01:20 AM, Jul 07, 2012
Islamabad: Gunmen opened fire on minority Shiite Muslim pilgrims traveling through southwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 26 people in an apparent sectarian attack, officials and survivors said. The pilgrims were traveling by bus through Mastung district in Baluchistan province on their way to the Iranian border when the attack occurred, said Khushhal Khan, the driver of the vehicle, which was carrying at least 40 people. A pickup truck blocked the...
08:57 PM, Sep 20, 2011
Quetta: A bomb attached to a timer ripped through a two-story hotel in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province on Sunday, reducing the building to rubble and killing 12 people, police said. The attack in the town of Dera Allah Yar also wounded 23 people, said Jawed Iqbal Gharshin, the police chief in surrounding Jafferabad district. Police have taken two people into custody who had tea in the hotel's restaurant and left...
07:42 PM, Aug 14, 2011
CNN-IBN's Amrita Tripathi in conversation with author Jamil Ahmad, about his latest piece of fiction 'The Wandering Falcon'. Amrita Tripathi: You've served in the Frontier Province and in Balochistan -- these are areas the rest of the world sees as largely lawless and ungovernable or terrorist havens. How do you perceive that? How much have things changed? Jamil Ahmad: I can only talk about the period I lived and worked...
08:49 PM, May 06, 2011
John Solecki was taken captive on February 2 in Baluchistan. ...
12:33 AM, Apr 05, 2009
US had said it would conduct military strikes in Baluchistan. ...
11:42 AM, Mar 20, 2009
Obama is considering proposals to expand air strikes into the province of Baluchistan. ...
05:14 PM, Mar 19, 2009
UN official John Solecki is being held captive somewhere in Baluchistan. ...
09:07 PM, Feb 23, 2009
John Solecki suffered from a serious medical condition that needed attention. ...
01:15 PM, Feb 23, 2009
Pak is angry that the map shows a free Baluchistan and a NWF province. ...
01:55 AM, Nov 24, 2008
Pakistan Meteorological Department put the magnitude at 6.1 on the Ritcher scale. ...
09:18 AM, Oct 29, 2008
A blast went off at a rally promoting autonomy for Baluchistan. ...
11:28 AM, Aug 26, 2008
