balochistan province

Quetta, March 31 – Gas supply to Quetta and several districts in Pakistan's Balochistan province has been disrupted after unidentified assailants detonated the main gas pipeline in the Western Bypass area, local media reported on Tuesday.A spokesperson for Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) said...

Karachi, March 18 A woman allegedly trained as a suicide bomber by the banned Balochistan Liberation Army has been arrested before she could carry out her mission, a top Pakistani leader said on Wednesday.Chief Minister Sarfaraz Bugti told a media conference in Quetta, the capital of...

Islamabad, March 9 – Pakistani authorities on Monday warned that the country's air quality could deteriorate due to pollution originating from Iran following recent US-Israeli attacks on Iranian oil sites.The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) said in a statement that the western parts...

Islamabad, March 7 – The Balochistan province of Pakistan reflects more than just a regional crisis, exposing the structural weaknesses of the Pakistani authorities and underscoring the risk of militarizing politics.By portraying Balochistan solely as a security problem, Islamabad's approach...

Islamabad, March 7 Pakistani security forces have killed 15 terrorists in two separate operations based on intelligence in the restive Balochistan province, the army said on Saturday.According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan army, the operations...

Islamabad, March 4 Pakistan targeted the famous Bagram airbase in Afghanistan as its operation was aimed at the Afghan Taliban over their alleged failure to stop terrorist attacks from their territory, media reports said on Wednesday.Pakistan launched Operation Ghazab lil Haq (Righteous Fury)...

Quetta, March 3 – The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed on Tuesday that it had killed seven Pakistani military personnel captured during 'Operation Herof II', following orders from the Senior Command Council, local media reported.In a statement, the BLA said that seven men, related to...

Islamabad, March 3 Pakistani security forces killed another 67 members of the Afghan Taliban in overnight operations, repelling their attacks at 16 locations along the southwestern border early Tuesday, officials said.Information Minister Attaullah Tarar provided updates on the ongoing...

Islamabad, February 23 Pakistani security forces have killed nine terrorists in two separate operations in the country's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces, the army said on Monday.The forces conducted an intelligence-based operation on Monday in the Dera Ismail Khan district of...

Quetta, February 23 – As violence against civilians continues to escalate in the Balochistan province of Pakistan, a leading human rights organization reported that two farmers from the Surab area were killed after being subjected to enforced disappearance earlier this month, local media...

Karachi, February 22 Unidentified armed men have abducted nine labourers from the Barkhan and Khuzdar districts of Balochistan province in Pakistan over the last 24 hours, officials said Sunday evening.In both cases, the sites belonged to private companies, and the labourers were from the...

Karachi, February 18 At least eight suspected terrorists were killed on Wednesday by Pakistani security forces on the outskirts of Quetta in the restive Balochistan province.A spokesperson for the Balochistan Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) told the media that the CTD had carried out a raid...

Quetta, February 17 – The Baloch Women Forum (BWF) has written to the international community, drawing attention to what it described as persistent human rights abuses carried out by Pakistani forces across Balochistan, particularly the growing wave of enforced disappearances of Baloch women...

Quetta, February 14 – As violence against civilians continues to escalate across the Balochistan province in Pakistan, a leading human rights organization revealed on Saturday the extrajudicial killing of another Baloch youth by the country's forces.These latest incidents come against the...

Berlin, February 14 – Shafi Burfat, Chairman of the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM), condemned the presence of Pakistani Army Chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, at global security forums across Europe, calling it an insult to the communities facing "repression and occupation" within the South...

Islamabad, February 13 An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck the Balochistan province of Pakistan on Friday, but there were no reports of casualties or damage.The earthquake occurred at 6:30 am at a depth of 13 km, and its epicenter was 86 km northeast of the Khuzdar town in the province...