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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
B.H.C. Issues Notices to Six Newspapers
From Dawn QUETTA, May 15: A division bench of the Balochistan High Court (BHC) issued show-cause notices to owners and editors of six newspapers on Wednesday for publishing statements of banned organisations accepting responsibility for acts of terrorism. The bench comprising Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan issued the notices during [...]
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Issues Fresh Warning to Balochistan’s Shias
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: The banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an underground Sunni militant group that accepted responsibility for Saturyday’s deadly bomb blast in Quetta which killed around 80 people, has said it would continue its anti-Shia operations despite the governor’s rule or even if the military takes control of Balochistan. Abu Bakar Siddiq, a spokesman for [...]
After Governor’s Rule
By Shahzada Zulfiqar Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani was removed in an unceremonial way due to his disinterest in provincial affairs, particularly law and order and his usual long absence from Quetta. Governor rule was imposed for 60 days in Balochistan in the wake of 3-day-long sit-in by protesting Hazara people. Eight to ten thousand [...]
Editorial: Buses of Mass Destruction
There is one pessimistic lesson we should learn from Sunday’s car bomb blast on Shia pilgrims in Mastung: no travel route is safe for the Shias in Balochistan and sectarian militants have become so powerful that they can hunt down unarmed citizens wherever they want and then easily vanish in thin air without the fear of ever being caught. The sectarian [...]
Growing intolerance: Sectarian killers mow down seven in Quetta
The Baloch Hal Monitoring Desk QUETTA: Bloody sectarian violence continues unabated in the volatile Balochistan province. On Saturday, seven members of the Hazara community were killed in two apparently coordinated drive-by shooting incidents on the outskirts of the provincial capital. “Gunmen riding on motorcycles fired a volley of gunshots at a bus stop in the [...]
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Kills Two More Hazaras in Quetta
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: Two more people belonging to Hazara community fell victim of the ongoing unchecked cycle of sectarian killings in the provincial capital on Tuesday night. According to police, unidentified armed assailants opened indiscriminate fire on two different shops at Mecongy Road. As a result, two people, belong to Hazara community were [...]
Editorial: Mistaking the Enemy
At least seventy five people were killed and two hundred were injured in one of the worst suicide bomb blasts in the history of Balochistan. The blast took place at Mizan Chowk, a popular venue in Quetta for political congregations, when the members of Shia community expressed solidarity with their Palestine brethren. The loss of [...]