The blogger is a social commentator who has written extensively for various Pakistani English dailies By Sibtain Naqvi Published: October 25, 2016 Another day, another tragedy in Quetta. The city has seen too many to be listed but the attack on Balochistan Police College that took at least 61 lives, is the third time in less than three months that terrorists have been successful. On August 8th, Quetta’s legal community was wiped out in a…
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THE death toll is shocking as is the seeming ease with which militants were able to attack a police training academy outside Quetta city; our thoughts must turn to the injured and the families of those who died. The first line of defence for much of Pakistan are this country’s police forces — often targeted, unduly vulnerable and unconscionably under-resourced across most of the country. Particularly in Balochistan, where the police are institutionally marginalised in…
While protests related to the killing of over 70 people in Quetta in August (mostly lawyers) still continue, there was yet another major terrorist attack in the city. The DG Rangers announced within hours of the incident that the attack was launched by LeJ al Almi and that the terrorists had been receiving instructions from Afghanistan. Chief Minister Zehri said he had reports about four terrorists entering Quetta. What is the use of this information…
The terrorist attack in Uri diverted the world’s attention from the heroic movement of the Kashmiri people bringing instead the issue of terrorism on center stage. What is more, the attack led to cross border exchanges of fire that still continue. These attacks have led to evacuations of the civilian population from border areas and casualties among both the civilians and border guards. On Sunday, a man and a child died while several were injured…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday accused India of trying to sabotage his party’s ‘reform movement’, doubling down on earlier claims that the eastern neighbour’s aggressive designs along the Line of Control (LoC) were an effort to take some pressure off Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Speaking to reporters outside his Bani Gala residence before leaving for Quetta, the PTI chief said that since India was aware it could not defeat a nuclear-armed…
Quetta – Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday chaired a high-legal emergent meeting at the Governor’s House to chalk out a new strategy to save the provincial metropolitan city, in particular, and the entire Balochistan, in general, from the onslaught of religious extremists, terrorist outfits and foreign-sponsored agents. It was in fact a combination of civil and military top leaderships that assembled in this terror-ridden capital to deliberate ways and means to protect the lives…