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Posts Tagged ‘quetta’

Why Blowing Up of Bolan Mail is Not Condemned?

By A Khokar • Jun 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The so-called Balochistan Republican Army is part of a list of three or four terrorist groups that do not really exist on the ground but are the joint creation of CIA and Indian intelligence in Afghanistan. Karzai’s intelligence units act as their facilitator. In Baluchistan the anti Pakistan subversive operation is headed by a traitor [...]



Christian persecution still prevalent

By Arun R. Zaheeruddin • Jun 15th, 2009 • Category: Misc

A Church centre in Lahore, the cultural capital of Pakistan has been threatened with a suicide bomb attack. Can the Christians feel safe in Pakistan any more?



Last Laugh Will Be From …?

By Mohsin Sehgal • May 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Well, our army has at last set it’s priorities straight, our politicos have also got their alignments in one direction and over-whelming majority of the populace also thinking in one direction, i.e. to crush Taliban before they crush rest of the country. Nobody wants to get butchered, or flogged or dictated by some chair-lift operator [...]



Faultlines in Balochistan

By Prof. Dr. Mansoor Akbar Kundi • May 17th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The situation in Balochistan is disappointing;  if not alarming.  In Quetta a large number of private schools have been warned not to play national anthem.   The administration of the University of Balochistan was alert by inviting Frontier Corps (FC) after it was announced that a procession of students would reach the University administration building and [...]



Without Balochistan, We are Nothing

By Fatima Tassaduq • Apr 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

People in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi simply don’t have any idea about the grave and fulminating situaiton in the most vast province of Pakistan. Things are about to go out of control in the Balochistan and yet there is no sense of urgency on the part of the government. Some political parties have carried out [...]



Stop South Punjab Becoming Swat

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Apr 17th, 2009 • Category: Politics

As the world focusses on the FATA and Swat regions of Pakistan, and the Balochi areas of Quetta, Pashin and the Noshki are also not hidden from the world’s flashlight anymore, there is very serious and looming threat just standing at the door of the Southern areas of Punjab province of Pakistan, which borders with [...]



Deaths in Container

By Prof. Dr. Mansoor Akbar Kundi • Apr 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The death of 52 people in a 16 wheel container on 4th April in the vicinity Hazarganji,  12 kilometers from Quetta was a pathetic scene of the unruliness and administrative incompetence the country is faced with.  It was a heinous crime of human trafficking mafia which resulted in the cold blood murder of innocent people, [...]



Human Smuggling in Pakistan

By Ghazala Khan • Apr 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The current incident in the Hazar Gunji area of Quetta city of Balochistan Province is just tip of the iceberg about the horrendous and wide scale human trafficking in the Pakistan. From all the provinces, not only the local people are shipped illegally to the Middle East, Europe, Australia and to Mexico but also the [...]



Zardari in Balochistan : Golden Chance for Him

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Mar 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

In a very commendable gesture, President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari has landed in Quetta, the beautiful provincial capital of Balochistan. As he steps into the fresh air of Quetta, he should have sensed the tension, frustration and anger of the Balochi people which is ubiquitous everywhere. He must have sensed that this is the [...]



Rind, Raisani Feud and Balochistan

By Ali Yar Khan • Feb 23rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

The feud between Raisani tribe and the Rind tribe in Balochistan goes back to three decades. Hundreds of people have died in this deadly lockdown including the father of current Raisani cheif and the six month old son of Rind chief, Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind who is the lone opposition member in the provincial assembly. [...]