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Security in Gwadar: Govt dusts off plan to set up cantonment
Seeks to allay foreign investors’ security.
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Polio virus: Zero cases reported in Balochistan
Senior govt official praises health department, Unicef, tribal elders, religious scholars for their efforts.
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Missing persons: CM Malik foresees gradual settlement
Says situation in Balochistan is steadily improving.
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Missing persons: Balochistan CM asks Lateef Johar to end strike
The student activist refused to give in, demanding to know who has detained Zahid Baloch.
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Balochistan LG elections: Councillors to elect women, non-Muslim members today
Polls for reserved seats for peasants and social workers postponed.
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FIR lodged against ex-minister’s son
Balochistan Levies hold Shafiq Mengal responsible for Khuzdar check post attack.
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Land leveling for installation of 10 power plants at Gaddani to begin next month
Sethi directed that in awarding the contract for land-levelling, a transparent process must be adopted.
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Numbers in missing persons case paint gloomy picture
Govt says only 71 people are missing while human rights organisations claim 8,000 people have been abducted.
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Dirty tricks: Farmers in Quetta don’t have a green thumb
Use sewage to irrigate vegetable fields, supply produce to Karachi and Balochistan.
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Deprived province: 59% of Balochistan without natural gas
Only 13 district headquarters are supplied with gas, Senate told.
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Check post attacked: Five FC troops injured in Bajaur
Security forces claim to have killed five militants in the retaliatory action.
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Violent attack: Eight security men killed in Khuzdar
Assailants destroy check post, rescue workers rush to the site.
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Tremors felt in Quetta, surrounding areas
The epicentre and the magnitude of the tremors are not known as yet.
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Family support: Saving mothers in Balochistan
Those were depressing days after 30-year-old Seema Gul discovered that she was suffering from fistula disease.
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Baloch student wages hunger strike over missing leader
Johar has lost 21kg of his body weight since beginning his protest and his frailty is obvious.
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Standing committees: No in-house panels in Balochistan Assembly
Govt has so far not formed standing committees to maintain its optimum level of performance.
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Balochistan unrest: Five killed in separate incidents
Woman succumbed to her wounds on way to Quetta for treatment.
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FC camp attacked in Balochistan: 1 person killed
Assailants opened fire, carried out rockets attacks and threw hand grenades at the FC camp.
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6 killed in Balochistan gun attack
Unidentified armed men entered the house of Master Hameed and opened fire, leaving the occupants dead.
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Health facilities: EPI not covering 39% area of Balochistan
This was revealed by Dr Sultan Ahmed Rodi, Coordinator Health Information System in Balochistan.
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Firm stance: ‘Health, education are our priorities’
Health and education are the priorities of the government,”CM added.
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Caught: FC men, police foil terror bid in Balochistan
They intercept truck carrying stockpile of weapons, ammunition during raid in Qila Abdullah district.
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Threat to schools: Protesters take to the streets in Panjgur
Protest against the attacks on private schools which remained closed for the fifth consecutive day.
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Balochistan rain: Relief agency confirms four fatalities
Farmers say rains washed away homes in several districts, destroy cherry crops.
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Balochistan crisis: Dr Malik urges insurgents to revisit their approach
Chief minister says he’d been mandated by Centre to bring all groups into mainstream.
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Spreading darkness
The ease with which militants were able to close down schools in Panjgur raises questions of impunity and complicity.
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Ultimatum: Private schools in Panjgur closed indefinitely
Their owners are facing threats from a militant outfit.
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Living hell
There seems to be a lack of political will on part of the government to provide relief to people of Awaran.
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Balochistan rains: Three swept away by flash flood in Mach
Rainwater is reported to have entered houses in low-lying areas of the city.
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Days, not hours, without electricity
After thunderstorms damage transmission lines, some Balochistan districts go without power for 20 hours.
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Border violation: Iranian guards kill man in Panjgur incursion
Iranian border guards trespass 3km inside Pakistani territory and kill Pakistani citizen, injure another in Panjgur.
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Heavy rain inundates quake-hit Awaran
At least four villages were reportedly inundated after heavy rainfall.
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Moderate 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits Balochistan
The epicentre was close to the city of Sibi, at a depth of 71 kilometres.
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LG polls Phase II: Over 2,000 seats won unopposed
Elections for second phase of local bodies in Balochistan for 2,298 vacant seats are scheduled to take place on May 29
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Growing concerns: Panjgur protests attacks on ‘English schools’
Political parties join hands, demand immediate action.
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Wanted gangster Baba Ladla reportedly killed on Pak-Iran border
Some sources put the location as Mund Bullo while another source put the location as Chabahar on the Pak-Iran border.
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Rising tensions: After clashing with Quetta police, lawyers offer themselves for arrest
Quetta police register cases against 150 lawyers under Anti-Terrorism Act after 6 officers were beaten up by lawyers.
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Hand grenade attack in Khuzdar injures 12
Khuzdar police say unidentified assailants hurl grenade near Eidgah Chowk, grenade lands in front of a restaurant.
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Rise in robberies: Bank heists post upsurge in Balochistan
Province witnesses a sharp rise in number of banks looted by militants or ‘highly trained robbers’.
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Marginalised women
Leading political parties of Balochistan have no plans yet to put forward any woman candidate for a mayoral post.
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Power cuts in Balochistan: Crisis deepens as Qesco fails to repair lines
Four 220 KV transmission lines collapsed following thunderstorms.
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Blast in Jafarabad: Four injured
No loss of life was reported till the filing of this report.
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Balochistan: Grass-cutting row in small village claims 11 lives
Member of Maachi tribe was shot dead over trespassing, cutting grass by a member from Peecho tribe: local official
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Political empowerment: Fencing in the women of Balochistan
Leading coalition parties rule out female candidates for mayoral election.
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Missed target: 2 dead, 15 injured in Quetta bicycle blast
Explosion occurred near NADRA office on Double road.
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Panjgur incident: Militant group threatens English-language schools
Warns girls not to go to Learning Centers, saying ‘Western education’ is ‘haram’.
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1 FC official killed, 3 injured in militant attack
The Baloch militants belonged to the banned Baloch Liberation Front.
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Development in Balochistan: Pre-budget seminar urges for creation of natural resource-based economy
CM's representative says budget will 'break from tradition'.
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Search operation: Ten insurgents killed in Balochistan
During the encounter 3 members of the paramilitary Frontier Corps were also wounded.
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A national disgrace
Balochistan is an overlapping Venn diagram of conflict, the bottom layer of which is women and children.