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 [...]
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 [...]
Quetta Deputy Commissioner Killed
From Samaa TV QUETTA: Deputy Commissioner Quetta Abdul Mansoor Kakar succumbed to injuries. He was hurt during firing and bomb attack at Bolan Medical College Hospital, SAMAA reported. DC Quetta and several other high ranking officials including Chief Secretary Babar Yaqoob Fateh were in the hospital looking after the injured of Sardar Bahadur Khan Women’s [...]
Editorial: Pakistan’s “Drone Operations” in Balochistan
In a recent interview with the B.B.C. Urdu, veteran Baloch nationalist leader Senator Hasil Khan Bizenjo rightly compared Pakistan’s ‘kill and dump’ operations in Balochistan with America’s drone-strikes taking place in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). He told a Pakistani audience that if drones, as argued by the government authorities, were “counterproductive” in the [...]
Editorial: Embracing Musharraf’s Cronies
Until he joined the Pakistan Muslim League (P.M.L-Nawaz) on April 12th,2013, Jan Mohammad Jamali, who was elected as the new Speaker of the Balochistan Assembly on June 4, remained an ardent supporter of former military dictator General Pervez Muhsharraf. As a leader of the pro-Musharraf Pakistan Muslim League (P.M.L-Quaid-e-Azam), Mr. Jamali served as the Deputy [...]
Editorial: A Landmark Decision For Balochistan and the Monumental Challenges Ahead
The incoming prime minister Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif has finally nominated former senator, Dr. Malik Baloch, who is also the president of the National Party (N.P.), as Balochistan’s next chief minister. This is indeed a landmark decision as it will be the first time in Balochistan’s history that a self-made man belonging to the Baloch [...]
Balochistan CM Should Be From PML-N: Zehri
From Pakistan Today QUETTA: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Balochistan President Sardar Sanaullah Zehri said in the wake of the 18th amendment, the power to decide on the chief minister resided with the province, and since his party was the single largest one in Balochistan, the future chief minister should be from amongst its ranks. Talking to [...]
Balochistan’s Chief Problem
By Dr. Fouzia Saeed Good governance in Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa remains one of the critical dimensions of our approach to dealing with our biggest issue: countering militant insurgency. On the appointment of the Chief Minister in K-P, as we all know Khattak’s background and we have all witnessed his words of wisdom in his first press [...]
P.M.L.-N Nominates Zehri as Balochistan’s Next Chief Minister
From Dawn QUETTA: The PML-N has nominated Sardar Sanaullah Zehri for the chief ministership of Balochistan after it became the largest party in the provincial assembly with the joining of two MPAs-elect. Mir Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti, an independent candidate elected from Dera Bugti, announced his decision to join the PML-N and MPA-elect Syed Mohammad Raza [...]