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07.09.2010
Kidnapped lawyer’s body found from Mastung
QUETTA: A bullet-riddled dead body of a kidnapped lawyer Zaman Marri was found from Mastung on Monday. The chief justice of the Balochistan High Court had also taken suomotu notice of the kidnapping of Zaman Marri advocate and Munir Ahmed Mirwani advocate and asked the authorities concerned for their safe and early recovery. Marri’sbody was taken to Bolan Medical College Teaching Hospital for autopsy. The victim received a single bullet on the head that caused his instant death said the hospital sources, adding that the body bore marks of violence on the face and chest. Another bullet-riddled body was also brought to the hospital and according to a police source, it was recov... details >>
06.09.2010
Advocate Zaman Marri killed
According to incoming news from Balochistan Advocate Zaman Khan Marri dead body was found near Mastung more details awaited.... details >>
06.09.2010
Violation of the Land Acquisition Act
Sunday, 05 Sep, 2010
Pakistan Navy has acquired close to 13,500 acres of land in Turbat and Dasht areas of Kech district in Balochistan’s Makran division to the distress of local landowners and the ire of Baloch political activists, the Herald reports. The landowners in Turbat have moved an application to the provincial government saying that they were not even informed before their lands were acquired and that the naval authorities paid them nothing in lieu of their lands, says a special report in the magazine’s latest issue that hit the newsstands today (Sunday). “We only became aware [of the acquisition] when the navy started construction and we were stopped from visiting our land... details >>
06.09.2010
60,000 flood victims suffering from epidemics in Balochistan
QUETTA: Over 60,000 flood survivors in five districts of eastern Balochistan were suffering from epidemics, particularly gastroenteritis and malaria. Well-reputed sources in the Health Department told APP that the government had been apprised that over 60,000 flood-stricken people out of total 1.1 million in five districts of eastern Balochistan, including Jhal Magsi, Jaffarabad, Nasirabad, Sibi and Bolan, had been suffering from epidemics after consumption of contaminated floodwaters. They said that at 30 medical camps set up in flood-hit areas, 30,000 patients of diarrhoea, 8,539 of malaria, 8,761 of skin diseases, 3,764 of asthma and 2,979 of eye diseases had been examined. They added tha... details >>
05.09.2010
Rehman Arif Balaoch goes missing,
zonal president of BRP Gawader is abducted early this morning along with his relative,they were going to hospital for check up of his relative but in the half way they were abducted by Pakistani intelligence agencies. After a few hours the abducted relative of rehman arif was released but Rehman Arif is still missing. ... details >>
05.09.2010
Levies official, 2 others killed in separate incidents
QUETTA: Three people, including a Levies spoy, were shot dead in separate incidents of firing in Quetta, Kalat and Tump, on Saturday. According to official sources, a Levies official, identified as Masood Ahmed, was on his way home to Tump bazaar, when unidentified assailants on a motorbike opened fire on him, killing him instantly. Levies personnel rushed to the spot and shifted the body of their colleague to the District Headquarters Hospital, Kech, for an autopsy. Law enforcement agencies termed the incident a target killing. Meanwhile, in Quetta, armed men tried to kidnap a shopkeeper, Mohammad Younus, and his companion, Mohammad Asad, at the Saryab Road, and at their resistance opened f... details >>
04.09.2010
2 FC personnel killed in Khuzdar attack
QUETTA: Two Frontier Corps personnel were shot dead in Khuzdar, 300 kilometres from the provincial metropolis on Friday.According to official sources, Behdozaman and Alam Shah were going to bazaar in civil dress in Khuzdar when unidentified people ridding a motorcycle sprayed them with bullets. Both security personnel died on the spot while the assailants fled from the scene. Law enforcement agencies and police rushed to the spot soon after the incident and took the bodies to the District Headquarters Hospital for autopsy. Later, law enforcement agencies and police cordoned off the area and started a search operation, but no group has claimed responsibility of the killing so far. Investigati... details >>
03.09.2010
FC shot died 1 and injured several at Hub,
2 killed in Turbat bus attack
QUETTA: Two people were killed, while eight others injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a passenger bus carrying pilgrims in Pidrak area near Turbat on Thursday. According to reports, a passenger bus coming from Sindh was attacked near Pidrak area, a town close to Turbat city. Gunmen opened fire on the bus as a result of which two pilgrims died on the spot, while eight others sustained multiple injuries.
Man gunned down in Mastung
A man was shot dead in the Hindu locality, Mastung, on Thursday, around 50 kilometres from Quetta. According to official sources, unidentified armed motorcyclists opened indiscriminate fire in Mastung. As a result, a man... details >>
03.09.2010
US to open consulate in Balochistan, says Patterson
QUETTA: US Ambassador in Pakistan, Anne W Patterson has said that an American consulate will be set up in Quetta to oversee the development activities carried out by the Americans in Balochistan.
“The consulate will be set up to monitor the development activities being carried out by the US in Balochistan. It will also ensure a close liaison between the Baloch people and the US, and would provide visa facility to the people of Balochistan,” she said, while refuting the allegation that the consulate was intended to monitor activities in Iran and Afghanistan at a press conference here on Wednesday.
Patterson, accompanied by the American Consul General Karachi William Martin, also denied form... details >>
01.09.2010
Needs of Balochistan flood victims unmet: UNHCR
QUETTA: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) representative in Pakistan Mengesha Kebede on Tuesday drew attention to the plight of Balochistan’s flood survivors whose basic needs have not been met as yet. Kebede also complained that the mainstream media had largely forgotten about the flood victims in the province.
“The situation in Balochistan is worst; 1.2 million flood survivors are under shelters and half of them came from Sindh. The province was forgotten and the media did not play its role regarding the problems faced by survivors in Balochistan,” he observed.
He remarked that the media was ‘following the river and the routes of the flood’, and their prime focus remained sou... details >>
01.09.2010
BNP-Mengal leader among 2 killed in Kalat
QUETTA: Two people, including a Balochistan National Party- Mengal (BNP-M) leader, were shot dead in Kalat on Tuesday. According to sources, Kalat district BNP leader Nawabuddin Nechari and his friends Saffar Khan and Mullah Bakhsh were on their way on the national highway when unidentified assailants opened indiscriminate fire on their vehicle. As a result, two of them died on the spot while Mullah Bakhsh suffered multiple bullet injuries. Police reached the site soon after the incident and took the bodies and injured to a government hospital. BNP leaders Mir Nooruddin Mengal and Mir Akbar Ali termed the incident a ‘targeted killing’ to eliminate the BNP leadership from the political horizo... details >>
31.08.2010
8 die from gastro in Dera Murad Jamali
QUETTA: At least eight people, including six children, suffering from gastroenteritis and other waterborne diseases have lost their lives during two days in Dera Murad Jamali while hundreds of affectees were being treated in hospitals and field hospitals by the Army Medical Corps.According to sources, the epidemics broke out in Dera Murad Jamali and adjoining areas where a large number of affected people had taken shelter. More than 1.4 million people had been dislodged due to the floods and had no access to clean water, food and medical facilities. “Three to four patients, including women and children, are dieing on a daily basis,” sources at a hospital told this scribe. He said that the fl... details >>
29.08.2010
Jamil Bugti proposes re-demarcation of Balochistan
* Says Dera Ghazi Khan, Kandkot, Kashmore and Jacobabad be merged into Balochistan for plebisciteBy Mohammad ZafarQUETTA: Nawabzada Jamil Akbar Bugti has proposed re-demarcation of provinces on ethnic, linguistic and cultural basis remerging Dera Ghazi Khan, Kandkot, Kashmore, Jacobabad and other Baloch areas into Balochistan before any plebiscite is held ascertaining the will of the people to remain in Pakistan or not.Addressing a press conference at the Bugti Bolak on the fourth death anniversary of his father Nawab Akbar Bugti, he said it was a democratic proposal and Pakistan as a civilised country should accept it.He said the plebiscite in Balochistan should be held under the supervisio... details >>
28.08.2010
Govt harassing motorcyclists in Balochistan
Saturday, August 28, 2010
QUETTA: The Balochistan government and security agencies are reportedly harassing motorcyclists in the insurgency-hit province, which has caused a sense of insecurity amongst the citizens. For the past couple of days, police and other law enforcement agencies had made it a common practice to detain motorcyclists for hours without asking them to show the documents of their vehicles. The citizens’ time was being wasted as nearly all motorists had been stopped at many intersections of Quetta. The Balochistan government and the law enforcement agencies had failed to explain their action of stopping the motorcyclists at every intersection while the citizens had also fai... details >>
27.08.2010
Bullet-riddled body found in Khuzdar, 2 prisoners shot dead
Friday, August 27, 2010
QUETTA: A bullet-riddled body was found in Khuzdar on Thursday, some 350 kilometres from Quetta. According to security sources, the body was found from Bagh Bana area of Khuzdar and was brought to hospital for autopsy. The deceased has been identified as Tahir Muhammad. Sources said that unidentified people had kidnapped Tahir Muhammad from Koshak area of Khuzdar a few days ago. Marks on Tahir’s body indicate he was severely tortured before his death.
Two prisoners were shot dead on Thursday after unidentified gunmen stormed a Levies post in Bakhtiarabad, some 300 kilometres from Quetta. According to security sources, a group of gunmen barged into the Levies post an... details >>
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