EID “Mubarak”
By: Bari Baloch QUETTA: The situation is heading fast towards a big human crisis where hundreds of thousands of flood affectees are living under the open sky from Dera Allayar, the bordering town of Balochistan with Sindh in sweltering heat without having proper relief. It is worth mentioning here that 13 districts of Balochistan had [...]
By Malik Siraj Akbar Finally, I have no option but to delete 03003823908 from my cell phone. This was the phone number I often used to dial or get calls from. “late” Habib Jalib, secretary general of the Balochistan National Party who was killed here on Wednesday by unidentified assailants, used this number and humbly [...]
By Malik Siraj Akbar A few years ago, my friend Basant Lal Gulshan, a reputed political representative of the Hindu community in Balochistan and currently a minister in Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani’s cabinet, visited me at my Daily Times bureau office inside Universal Complex on Jinnah Road, Quetta. We discussed over a cup of coffee [...]
By Urooj Zia If you see the flag of Pakistan in Balochistan, you are either on the Balochistan University campus in Quetta or at the provincial assembly – or, more alarmingly, within metres of a checkpost manned by the Frontier Corps (FC), the paramilitary force that controls the province. Nowhere else in this, the country’s [...]
By Malik Siraj Akbar Striking Quetta’s Civil Hospital on April 16, 2010, a young Baloch suicide bomber, Haq Nawaz Baloch, killed at least eleven people, including two top police officials and a television journalist. This attack was dissimilar from ones previously carried out by Baloch nationalist guerrilla fighters against government installations and its security forces. [...]
By Pervez Hoodbhoy The man who tried to set off a car bomb in Times Square was a Pakistani. Why is this unsurprising? Because when you hold a burning match to a gasoline tank, the laws of chemistry demand combustion. As anti-US lava spews from the fiery volcanoes of Pakistan’s private television channels and newspapers, [...]
By Malik Siraj Akbar 1-Mohammad Aslam Bhoothani: Bhoothani belongs to the Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam). He is the current speaker of the Balochistan Assembly. He is in fact a king-maker who has got the ability to actively lobby on key issues. Despite belonging to the federalist PML-Q, he has nationalistic tendencies. He made headlines when [...]
By Bari Baloch QUETTA: Despite lapse of two months, no progress has been made by police regarding investigation of assassination of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, who was martyred in a military operation in Balochistan in 2006. Family members of slain Baloch leader wanted to register the case against former President General (r) Pervez Musharraf and others [...]
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: Supreme Court verdict on National Reconciliatory Ordinance (NRO) is according to the aspirations of the people and those affected by is should give up public offices and face law and courts. This was stated by Chief Organiser PML-N Balochistan Khudai Noor Khan at a Press conference here Saturday afternoon. He [...]
QUETTA: Professor Naela Quadri Baloch, a member of the Central Committee of Baloch Republican Party (BRP) and a prominent nationalist leader of Balochistan, has deeply admired the launching of the Baloch Hal, Balochistan’s first online English newspaper. In a message of felicitation to the Baloch Hal team on Friday, the renowned Baloch political and social [...]
Photos of Suicide Blast at Finance Minister’s Home By Mazhar Ali Khan
ZHOB: An old man selling plastic pots to earn some living for his family in the streets of Zhob. (Photo Rafi)
Exclusive Images of Quetta Blast By Musa Farman
Today in Pictures by Mazhar Ali Khan August 26
Today in Pictures by Mazhar Ali Khan August 14
Today in Pictures By Mazhar Ali Khan
Panjgur Students Protest Against FC
