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KARACHI: Awami National Party (ANP) Sindh President Shahi Syed on Sunday alleged that some elements were exploiting the people of Hazara Division with backdoor financial help. Addressing a public gathering here, he said that everybody had the right to do politics in Karachi. The mutual respect, education, humanity and non-violence could ensure the country’s progress, he said. Syed said that ANP was ready to cooperate with all bodies for the cause of city and country. He said Sindh belongs to Sindhis, Balochistan to Baloch, Punjab to Punjabis and Khyber Pakhtunkuwa to Pakhtuns. A number of [...]

ISLAMABAD: The abductors of Afghanistan’s ambassador-designate to Pakistan Abdul Khaliq Farahi, who was kidnapped by armed gunmen from Peshawar in Sept 2008, Sunday released a video in which he was shown pleading to authorities to accept the demands of his captors. Farahi, 53, was abducted by armed men from the Hayatabad area of Peshawar. His driver was shot dead by the kidnappers. The diplomat, who hails from Afghanistan”s western Farah province, served as the Consul General in Quetta after the fall of the Taliban regime in Kabul. In April 2002, he was appointed as Consul General in Peshawar [...]

QUETTA: Targeted killings happen so often in Pakistan”s city of Quetta, they have become almost routine. Assassins drive up, fire a hail of bullets and melt into shadows as their victims bleed to death. Heading to and from work, or nipping to the shops, fear grips professional men and women in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, where a sharp increase in assassinations is being blamed on separatist rebels. An upsurge in killings threatens to ignite the southwestern tinder box, with possible consequences for neighbouring Iran and Afghanistan, and heavyweight allies China and [...]

QUETTA: At least four policemen including a DSP were injured in a blast here in a remote-controlled bomb explosion in Qambrani area of Sariab in the city, Geo News reported Saturday. The injured have been shifted to hospital in Edhi ambulances. Two passers-by were also injured in the explosion. Police and other law enforcement agencies put a security cordon around the blast site and started the search for the culprits. According to details, the police mobile van which was on patrol in the area, was targeted with the remote-controlled bomb. According to police sources, a vacant rickshaw was used [...]

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Nawaz Sharif has strongly denounced the killing of Professor Nazima Talib Mehdi in Quetta, saying the murder of an educationist is tantamount to playing with the future of entire nation. In a statement issued from Lahore on Tuesday, Nawaz said teachers are the guarantors of nation’s future. He said the growing incidents of target killings and open killings of teachers in Balochistan are a matter of concern for the entire nation. The PML-N chief urged the provincial government to take effective measures to prevent such incidents and ensure that such untoward [...]

QUETTA: Unidentified armed men shot dead a renowned educationist Nazima Talib Mehdi on Sariab Road here on Tuesday. According to police, she was on her way when armed men riding on a bike opened fire, killing her on the spot. Later, the assailants fled. She was Assistant Professor at Mass Communication Department of the University of Balochistan (UoB). Her students told APP that she was one of the pioneers of the Mass Communication Department of the UoB. She was also an intellectual and poetess. She had participated in several mushairas in Quetta and other cities. She along with her husband and [...]

QUETTA: The power shortfall rocketed up to 850 Megawatts in Balochistan, as Guddu’s Och-Sibi circuit number-2 closed down, Geo News reported Wednesday. The mammoth power crisis has pushed the rural areas to receive only four-hour power supply. The sources in Quetta Electricity Supply Company (QESCO) said the available electricity shrank to 300 MWs as the Circuit-2 220 KV transmission line in Guddu’s Och-Sibi was shut down. Quetta is suffering from 10-hour of load shedding and the span of power outages will swell to 20 hours in rural areas.

QUETTA: Quetta is observing the shutter-down strike on call from trade organizations in the city in the wake of bomb blast and firing incidents at Civil Hospital yesterday, Geo News reported Saturday. The entire city looks draped in mourning air with all educational institutions including Balochistan University closed. The blast killed at least 11 people including two DSPs and a cameraman of a private news channel and injured 35 others. The Anjuman Tajiran Balochistan gave a call of shutter-down strike against this mishap and other incidents of target killings in the province. Pashtoonkhaw Mili [...]

QUETTA: Quetta is observing the shutter-down strike on call from trade organizations in the city in the wake of bomb blast and firing incidents at Civil Hospital yesterday, Geo News reported Saturday. The entire city looks draped in mourning air with all educational institutions including Balochistan University closed. The blast killed at least 11 people including two DSPs and a cameraman of a private news channel and injured 35 others. The Anjuman Tajiran Balochistan gave a call of shutter-down strike against this mishap and other incidents of target killings in the province. Pashtoonkhaw Mili [...]

QUETTA: A suicide bomber killed 11 people, including a TV journalist and senior police officials, in an attack inside a hospital in Quetta on Friday. A member of parliament from the Pakistan People”s Party was among the scores wounded in the attack outside the emergency ward of the hospital in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan, officials said. “Eleven people, including two senior police officials, were killed in the attack and another 47 wounded,” police and hospitals sources said. A cameraman from the private TV news channel was among the dead while five other reporters [...]