Balochistan

No child to remain uneducated in Balochistan: Ahsan Iqbal

Quetta - Muslimchronicle

Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Friday said with the establishment of university campuses in Khuzdar, Pashin, Waad and Noshki, education opportunities will enable students to achieve higher education in the Balochistan province. He said this is the only way through which province will develop economically as well. He expressed these views at the inaugural ceremony of Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University Pashin Campus.Read more

Pakistan allows Indian 'spy' on death row

Islamabad - Muslimchronicle

Pakistani authorities allowed an Indian national sentenced to death for spying to see his family for the first time since his arrest, a rare and highly-anticipated meeting arranged amid tight security in Islamabad. Kulbushan Sudhir Jadhav, clad in a blue jacket, met with his wife and mother at Pakistan's foreign ministry in the capital, where they spoke through a glass barrier,Read more

Pakistani forces kill 4 terrorists in Balochistan

Balochistan - Muslimchronicle

The Pakistani army said Friday that security forces have killed four terrorists in mountainous areas in southwestern Balochistan province. "During exchange of fire, two terrorists were killed. These terrorists were making threatening calls to local population," the army's media wing Inter-Services Public Relations said in a statement. In other sanitization operation in Gandimgozi Kaur area, the security troops killed otherRead more

IS claims pre-Christmas suicide bombing of Pakistan church

Washington - Muslimchronicle

A suicide bomb attack on a Pakistan church claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least eight people and wounded 30 during a service on Sunday, just over a week before Christmas. Two women were among the dead at a Methodist church in the restive southwestern city of Quetta in Balochistan province, said provincial Home Secretary Akbar Harifal. SeveralRead more

Pakistan says over 300 Baloch separatist militants surrender

Balochistan - Muslimchronicle

More than 300 Baloch separatist militants have surrendered over the past few months, Pakistani government officials said, after a ceremony to mark the downing of guns and militants’ return to civilian life. The surrenders are part of government efforts to end a decade-long insurgency in the southwestern Baluchistan province by offering amnesties and financial rewards to soldiers and commanders toRead more

Over 300 militants surrender in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - Muslimchronicle

Officials in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan said Saturday that over 300 militants and 17 of their commanders of banned organizations have laid down arms and surrendered to the government. The militants surrendered at a ceremony in Quetta, the provincial capital, they said. Chief Minister of Balochistan, Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri, told the ceremony that the law and order situation is beingRead more

11 terrorists nabbed in security forces operations in SW Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - Muslimchronicle

Pakistani security forces on Sunday arrested 11 terrorists during intelligence based operations in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan and recovered huge cache of arms and ammunition, Pakistani army's media wing said. According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the operations were carried out in various parts of the province by paramilitary troops, frontier corps, policeRead more

Pakistani forces kill terrorist commander in Balochistan

Balochistan - Muslimchronicle

The Pakistani army said Friday that security forces have killed a terrorist commander in southwestern Balochistan province, who was involved in the killing of 15 laborers this week. Younas Taukali, identified as one of top commanders of the banned Baloch Liberation Front (BLF), was killed during exchange of firing with the security forces, the army's media wing Inter-Services Public RelationsRead more

6 killed, 20 injured in SW Pakistan's road accident

Islamabad - Muslimchronicle

A road accident occurred on Tuesday in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province, leaving six people killed and 20 others injured, according to local media. The incident happened when an over-speeding passenger bus collided with a parked container in Dalbandin area of the province, killing six people including women and children and wounding 20 others, local Urdu TV channel 92 News reported.Read more

At least 3 Hazara minority gunned down in SW Pakistan

Islamabad - Muslimchronicle

At least three people were killed and two others injured when some unknown gunmen targeted a vehicle in Pakistan's southwestern Quetta on Sunday, officials said. The victims, belonging to the Hazara community of minority Shia Muslims, were going somewhere when some unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants sprayed bullets at their vehicle, local Superintendent Police Zahoor Khan said. The insurgents fled the scene afterRead more