In a shocking incident, at least 14 passengers were forcibly offloaded from a bus on the Makran Coastal Highway in Balochistan’s Ormara area and shot dead by unidentified assailants early on Thursday. Going by the reports, around 15-20 unidentified armed assailants in camouflage reportedly stopped five or six buses travelling between Karachi[Read More…]
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Break Pakistan into four: Subramanian Swamy
Agartala, Sep 30 (IANS) BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Sunday demanded that Pakistan be broken into four regions – Sindh, Balochistan, Pakhtun and West Pakistan – and the first three must be handed over to India. “This is the only solution to the India-Pakistan conflict,” said the Rajya Sabha member[Read More…]
Pakistan Elections 2018: Imran Khan’s PTI marches ahead amid ‘glitches’
Massive delays in counting and allegations of rigging dominated the early hours of Thursday in Pakistan, where official poll results were still awaited even 15 hours after voting ended. Preliminary results indicate Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) has obtained a clear edge over other parties with 119 in their kitty as unofficial[Read More…]
Population boom trend: Three men fathered 96 children
Population control becomes one of the central concerns when it comes to the development of a country. However, in the list of most populous countries, Pakistan doesn’t fail to acquire the 6th position with almost 200 million population. The reason of a skyrocketing population can be accorded either to the government[Read More…]
Pak Senate Dy Chairman escapes assassination attempt
According to PTI reports, at least 25 people were killed and 35 others were injured in a blast in Mastung area in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province on Friday. The blast happened shortly after Friday prayers. Pakistan Senate Deputy chairman Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri escaped an assassination attempt and was reportedly[Read More…]
Former Indian Navy officer sentenced to death by Pak
India calls Pakistan a ‘terrorist state,’ attracts support from Balochistan
On Thursday, India called Pakistan a “terrorist state ” and accused it of carrying out “war crimes” against Indians through its “long-standing policy” of sponsoring terrorism. This response came hours after Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif racked up Kashmir issue at the UN General Assembly session. He referred to the “killing of innocent Kashmiri[Read More…]
Baloch separatist leader Bugti seeks asylum in India
Brahamdagh Bugti, Baloch leader who has been living in self-imposed exile in Switzerland has applied for asylum in India. “We want that the Indian Government should open the doors for Baloch people and provide them access, including myself,” said Bugti. He added that India’s intervention is important for the cause[Read More…]
Uri Attacks: Actions Will Speak Louder Than Condemnation
With the Uri attack, the vulnerabilities have been exposed yet again as far as our preparedness and call to action post intel inputs is concerned. 17 of our brave-hearts were martyred in a jiffy and all we have managed so far is the verbal diarrhoea of surgical strikes and political[Read More…]
Treating the Baloch as second-class citizens can worsen the insurgency even if New Delhi never uses “B” word again
A fresh wave of anti-Indianism has erupted in Pakistan following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent statements on Balochistan. Former dictator General Pervez Musharraf said in a television interview that Modi was “crazy”. He condemned the Baloch leaders who had thanked Modi for expressing concern over the state of human rights[Read More…]
India-Pakistan tug-of-war involves J&K and Balochistan
The Congress has openly supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statements against Pakistan, where he raised the Balochistan and Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir issues to counter its stance on Jammu and Kashmir and the on-going unrest. In 2009, India and Pakistan—Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Yusuf Raza Gilani—signed a joint declaration at Sharm-el-Sheikh, which said that[Read More…]
Bleeding Balochistan: Call for Azaadi
Bullet riddled bodies, mass graves and raped women – no, this isn’t anything about the ISIS in Syria but something close to our backyard. That’s what the daily scene looks like in Balochistan. Since the day Pakistan came into being, Balochistan has bled every single day. Military operation, enforced disappearance[Read More…]