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Posts Tagged ‘quetta’

Hazara Community of Balochistan Punished for Loving Pakistan

By Mateen Khalid • Oct 7th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

They stalked the buses, stop them along the way, step in the buses, open fire, shout slogans and then bolt. The repeated incidents of targeted killings of Hazara community in Quetta and around Baluchistan has become a routine and just another news for media and people, but the thing is that the biggest supporters of [...]



Al Qaeda Inviting America to Quetta

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jul 31st, 2011 • Category: Politics

Where Pakistani forces and the security agencies are trying their utmost best to safeguard the interests of the Pakistan, the terrorists outfits who are being funded by the foreign powers are busy at damaging the Pakistan’s foundations and along with carrying out the attacks, they are providing apt opportunities to the CIA and NATO forces [...]



One More Blow to Balochistan

By Tazeen • Jun 12th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Balochistan is simmering. It’s on the edge. Balochistanis are ill at ease with rest of the Pakistan. In many places within Balochistan, the Pakistani flag and the anthem and even the name has  become a taboo. The way Balochistan has been treated all these years and the way it has become a state of armed [...]



Where Chechen Killed in Quetta Were Innocent?

By Maria Sultan • May 19th, 2011 • Category: Politics

You cannot answer that question, neither can I or anybody else. Not even those people who killed them at the spot without hearing anything and without asking questions and without any warning. We dont have any knowledge of what happened, neither our media has anything about it.
Salute to those “brave” soldiers who killed that woman [...]



Why Quetta Blast is not Equal to Islamabad Blast?

By Tazeen • May 7th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Just like New York terror attack is not same as the blast in Kabul and London blast is not equivalent to the Lahore Blast, the blasts in the Quetta go unheard and un-noticed, but if a blast occurs in the Islamabad, it becomes a breaking news in a jiffy and the whole media flies with [...]



Balochistan Becomes Hell for Settler Educators

By Mohsin Sehgal • May 7th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Woe betide anybody under the delusion that the present dispensation is even understanding the Balochistan situation clearly and is ready to rectify the matters on war footings. Balochistan package or the tall claims made by the President Zardari himself may be decorating the walls of the presidency, but they are nowhere to be seen in [...]



Target killings in Baluchistan

By Syed Samiullah • Mar 30th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Incident of target killings is a daily occurrence here in Baluchistan. On Monday 22nd March 2010 another well reputed & respected educationist have been gunned down in Quetta in broad day light, adding to the dismal list of assassinations of educationists. Last year on October 25th, minister for education Shafiq Ahemd Khan was killed in [...]



Quetta Attack Plan

By A Khokar • Dec 18th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

When President Obama explained his decision to send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan to support General Stanley McChrystal’s new counterinsurgency campaign, he left a key question unanswered: Will this be enough to achieve U.S. strategic ends in Af-Pak?
U.S. military counterinsurgency doctrine calls for a security force ratio of 20 to 25 counterinsurgents for every [...]



PTCL Entertainment at PTCL Buzz

By Sumaira Bajwa • Nov 17th, 2009 • Category: Misc

PTCL has become the first company in Pakistan to provide Broadband services in over 100 cities across the country, whereas before PTCL’s entry into the Broadband [...]



Quetta Drone Attacks

By Rohail Butt • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: Politics

It seems that after finding nothing in Afghanistan and in the tribal region of Pakistan, United States wants to spill more blood in Quetta. Due to American presence in Afghanistan and it’s drone attacks in the FATA, Pakistan, and it’s huge presence and interference in Pakistan has destabilized the country, and NWFP is at war.
Not [...]