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Quetta highway blocked as sit-in enters second day

by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, December 14th, 2023QUETTA: A protest sit-in against the alleged extrajudicial killing of Balach Mola Bakhsh in a CTD operation continued for the second consecutive day on Wednesday in the Sariab area of Quetta. The protesters reached Quetta on Monday night after staging a sit-in in Turbat for two weeks. They have set up camps on the main highway near the Kachi Baig area and blocked the road linking Quetta with…

6,418 URLs blocked for fake news

report in The Express Tribune, Jan 16, 2023Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Syed Aminul Haque on Friday said that Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked 6,418 Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) involved in spreading fake news. In a written reply to the question of Senator Bahramand Khan Tangi, he said that the URLs had been blocked following the complaints lodged by stakeholders, including organisations, general public and proactive search pertaining to spreading of fake…

Terrorism in South Waziristan: Protesters block roads as sit-in continues

REPORT IN The News, Jan 12, 2023WANA: Almost all the roads leading to various destinations of the district kept blocked by the protesters as the sit-in continued for the sixth consecutive day despite chilling winter and rain in South Waziristan on Wednesday. The protesters have blocked Wana-Angoor Adda road, Wana-Tank road, Wana-Razmak road and others to protest the rising incidents of target-killing, kidnapping for ransom, extortion, terrorism, militancy and other crimes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in…