NEW DELHI: Gunmen in southwest Pakistan shot dead seven bus passengers on Wednesday after identifying them as being from another region.“They were lined up and shot dead,” senior government official Saadat Hussain told AFP, adding that the attackers forced passengers to hand over their identity cards and removed Punjabis from the bus before executing them.The…
ISLAMABAD: The first commercial flight landed at Pakistan’s new Gwadar International Airport on Monday following a months-long delay in the opening of the Beijing-funded facility in volatile Balochistan province.The airport’s opening was postponed from Aug 14 to the end of 2024 due to a security review sparked by a series of deadly attacks by separatist…
At least seven people, including five schoolchildren and a policeman, were killed in an explosion in Balochistan‘s Mastung in Pakistan, during a polio vaccination drive on Friday.According to local police chief Fateh Mohammad, a motorized rickshaw carrying schoolchildren was nearby when a bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded, injuring another 22 in the blast.“It appears…
ISLAMABAD: At least five people were killed and two injured when terrorists fired on workers at the site of an upcoming dam in Panjgur district of Pakistan’s Balochistan, local authorities said Tuesday in what was the latest in a wave of strikes aimed at projects in the restive province. The shooting occurred as PM Shehbaz…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani police have registered a case against human rights activist Dr Mahrang Baloch on the charge of aiding separatist groups in the country’s restive Balochistan province, officials said Saturday. A fierce critic of Pakistan’s military, Baloch denied the charges, saying the case showed “how the state has grown increasingly uncomfortable” with her activism.She was…
Increasing atrocities in Pakistan’s Balochistan region have raised concerns among activists all around the globe. Recently, a member of the Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC), Razzak Baloch slammed Pakistan and China, during a protest at the Broken Chair Monument outside the UN office in Geneva accusing them of looting Balochistan’s resources. Referring to the exploitation…
