Editorial: Why Pakistan Should Divorce Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
The city of Quetta observed a day of mourning on Sunday against the killing of more than 24 people in Saturday’s coordinated attacks on a university bus and the Bolan Medical College Hospital. When a political party within the ruling coalition, such as the Pashtunkhawa Milli Awami Party, calls for a strike, it implicitly shows [...]
Challenges Faced By Dr. Malik
By Mahvish Ahmad AS the newly-elected chief minister, Dr Abdul Malik, ends his first week in office amid cheers about his middle class roots — making him an anomaly in an office that has been the exclusive domain of Sardars or tribal chieftains — he faces pressures from Baloch who feel increasingly alienated from the [...]
3 Policemen Killed in Chaman Check Post Attack
From Express Tribune CHAMAN: Three officials were killed in a militant attack on a police check post in the Muslim Bagh area of Chaman, Balochistan on Sunday, reported Express News. More security officials were called in to contain the situation. The security situation in Balochistan has been unstable since the past few days. On Saturday, [...]
U.N. Secretary General Condemns Quetta Attacks
From Express Tribune QUETTA: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday strongly condemned the series of deadly attacks targeting a bus, a hospital facility and a national monument Balochistan, which left at least 20 civilians dead, many of whom were female students. In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Ban said no cause justifies such [...]
Weeping Families Identify Quetta Victims
From Express Tribune QUETTA: Weeping relatives gathered Sunday to identify the charred remains of loved ones killed in a double attack in Quetta claimed by a banned militant group. At least 25 people were killed on Saturday when militants blew up a bus carrying female students, and then stormed a hospital where survivors had been [...]
Female Suicide Bomber Responsible For Quetta Attack
From Dawn.com QUETTA: Intelligence officials revealed today that a female suicide bomber carried out the first attack on a bus carrying students of Sardar Bahadur Khan Women’s University earlier on Saturday. At least 25 people, including the deputy commissioner of Quetta, 14 students of a women’s university and four nurses were killed on Saturday when [...]
Gunmen Kidnap Relatives of Former Balochistan Governor
From Dawn.com QUETTA: Armed men kidnapped three relatives of former Balochistan governor Nawab Zulfiqar Magsi in Mastung district of the province on Sunday. Levies sources told Dawn.com that armed men kidnapped Mehrullah Magsi and other two relatives of the former Balochistan governor from Dasht Tehsil of Mastung district. They said that three Magsi tribesmen were [...]
BNP Workers Protest Killing of Activists
From Dawn QUETTA: Members and supporters of the Balochistan National Party (BNP) took out rallies in Quetta, Sibi and Dera Murad Jamali on Saturday to condemn the target killing of two party workers in Khuzdar a few days ago. They alleged that military personnel had intensified an operation in Kalat, particularly after the swearing in [...]
Shutter Down Strike Observed in Quetta
From Dawn.com QUETTA: A shutter down strike was observed in Quetta against twin suicide bombings in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan on Sunday. Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP), a Pashtun nationalist group, and traders community had given the call of strike to condemn the incident. All shops and markets were closed during the strike. The [...]
Editorial: Sisters in Coffins; Brothers in Blood; The Lashkar At Large
In one of the ugliest terrorist attacks in Balochistan’s history, Sunni militant group, the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, killed at least 24 people, mostly female university students in coordinated attacks in the provincial capital Quetta on Saturday. In the first assault, a bus carrying the students of the women-only Sardar Bahadur Khan Women’s University was blown up which was subsequently [...]