by Syed Ali Shah in The Express Tribune, Dec 30, 2023December 29, 2023At least three people sustained injuries in a hand grenade attack that occurred on Friday in the Gwadar district of Balochistan, according to police sources. The incident unfolded when unidentified miscreants threw a hand grenade at a garage situated on Syed Hashmi Road in the port city. Swift response from law enforcement and rescue teams saw the injured promptly transported to the Indus…
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by Dr Asif Channer in The Nation, Dec 26, 2023The unfolding drama in Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province, unveils a nuanced narrative marked by historical grievances, contemporary protests, and the ongoing struggle for autonomy. The roots of dissent trace back to the early 1970s when the Baloch Students Organisation-Awami (BSO-Awami) emerged from a split with the Baloch Students Organisation (BSO). With a Marxist-Leninist ideology, BSO-Awami vehemently opposed the sardari system and aligned itself with the Baluch…
by Tariq Saeed Birmani | Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Dec 18th, 2023DERA GHAZI KHAN/QUETTA: Police conducted a crackdown and detained “at least 20 participants, including women”, who joined the long march against the alleged “extra-judicial killings” by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) in Turbat, Balochistan, as it entered the city on Sunday. According to details, the long march of the Baloch Yakjehti Council (BYC), led by Mohammad Asif Laghari and originating from Balochistan, was intercepted…
report in The Nation, Dec 11, 2023QUETTA – The Station House Officer (SHO) of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Murad Jamot was martyred and two others injured in a bomb blast in Balochistan’s Khuzdar district on Sunday. Police said a magnetic bomb was exploded on Jamot’s vehicle when he was going to office near the Sultan Ibrahim Road in Khuzdar area. According to police sources, the nature of the explosion was a magnetic bomb and…
Report in The News, December 07, 2023QUETTA: The unknown armed men gunned down an advocate and injured his colleague in Mastung town area of Balochistan on Wednesday. According to police sources, the victim identified as Muhammad Waris Advocate along with his colleague Haji Habibullah was on way to the Session Court from his house when armed assailants opened fire at them and fled from the scene near Major Chowk area. As a result, Muhammad Waris…
report in The Express Tribune, Dec 6, 2023Balochistan Caretaker Information Minister Jan Achakzai on Tuesday said that the provincial government was mulling imposing a ban on Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), whose chief was arrested by the police from Chaman a day earlier. Chaman Deputy Commissioner Raja Athar Abbas had said that Manzoor Pashteen was apprehended after armed men from his vehicle allegedly opened fire at a police vehicle. However, the PTM leaders have accused law…
report in The News, Dec 4, 2023ISLAMABAD: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Ghulam Ali has said it is difficult to carry out political activities in parts of KP and Balochistan due to security reasons. In an interview to a private news channel on Saturday, Ghulam Ali said there was no doubt that the situation in some areas such as Tank, Dera Ismail Khan, Lakki Marwat and Bannu was not good and a similar situation persisted in Balochistan.…
by Behram Baloch in Dawn, November 24th, 2023GWADAR: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) said on Thursday it had killed four suspected terrorists in an intelligence-based operation in the Turbat town of Balochistan’s Kech district. According to a CTD spokesperson, the operation was launched based on intelligence indicating the presence of the individuals near a bus terminal on Pasni Road. As the CTD’s team approached the site, the armed people launched an attack using automatic weapons and…
Report in Pakistan Today, Nov 20, 2023QUETTA/KECH: Three people travelling in a car were killed when an improvised explosive device (IED) planted on roadside exploded in Hoshab area of Kech district in Balochistan on Sunday, officials said. Commissioner Mekran Division Saeed Ahmed Umrani confirmed that unidentified terrorists targeted a car using an improvised explosive device (IED) in Hoshab tehsil of district Kech, adding all three persons travelling in the car were killed on the spot.…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Nov 19th, 2023QUETTA: Five people, including three Levies personnel, were injured in two armed attacks in Chagai and Pishin districts of Balochistan on Saturday. Three Levies personnel sustained injuries in an attack by unidentified gunmen at a check post on the Quetta-Taftan highway in Chagai. Officials said a group of armed men raided a pickup in the Gazan area near Dalbandin and indiscriminately fired at the Levies personnel on duty…
By Saleem Shahid in Dawn, November 15th, 2023QUETTA: At least two dozen prominent politicians from Balochistan joined the PML-N on Tuesday after a meeting in Quetta with its supreme leader Nawaz Sharif, who arrived in the provincial capital on a two-day visit to woo ‘electables’ in the lead-up to the Feb 8 elections. The former prime minister, who returned from London in October following four years in self-imposed exile, also met the leadership of several…