Editorial: What Does it Mean to be a Baloch Suicide Bomber?
Friday’s suicide bombing outside the residence of Mir Shafiq Mengal, the son of a former interim chief minister, which killed at least fifteen people and injured thirty others, leaves us with absolutely murky prospects of peace in Balochistan in the upcoming year 2012. While for the rest of the country it was a routine bomb [...]
BLA Bombing Kills 15, Injures 30 in Quetta
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: A bomb blast on Friday afternoon in Balochistan capital Quetta near the residence of a former federal minister killed at least fifteen people and injured thirty others, police confirmed. According to BBC Urdu service, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has accepted responsibility for the blast and claimed that it was [...]
Editorial: War Against Baloch Doctors
In less than two months, at least three prominent Baloch doctors have been target killed, including two in the provincial capital. As expected, the murderers in all three cases are at large. Thursday’s killing of police surgeon Dr. Baqir Shah in Quetta, however, is a classic example of official negligence. Besides Dr. Shah himself and [...]
Doctors in Balochistan Begin Three-Day Mourning
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: Doctors in Balochistan have decided to observe three days of mourning against the killing of senior physician Dr. Baqir Shah which will lead to the partial closure of at least two main hospitals in the provincial capital. According to a joint decision issued by the Pakistan Paramedics Association (PMA), the [...]
Baloch Doctors Go on Strike Against Baqir Shah’s Killing
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: The Baloch Doctors’ Forum (BDF) has strongly condemned the killing of police surgeon Dr. Baqir Shah and termed the incident as a part of the ongoing “government-sponsored cycle of targeted assaults on Baloch doctors”. The BDF has called an emergency meeting today (Friday) and also announced a complete strike in [...]
Who Was Dr. Baqir Shah?
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: Dr. Baqir Shah, a police surgeon, had conducted the postmortem of the five foreigners, including three women who were brutally killed by the firing of security forces in Kharotabad area on May 17 this year. He had come up with a report that the victims were killed by the bullets [...]
Police Surgeon Dr. Baqir Shah Assassinated in Quetta
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: Unidentified persons shot dead police surgeon Dr. Baqir Shah, the key forensic investigator in the Kharotabad incident, in Quetta on Thursday, confirmed Superintendent of Police Fareedullah Bareach. Bareach told reporters in Quetta it was premature to say it was a case of target killing ahead of official investigations. The slain [...]
Editorial: Rehman Malik Is Not a Foreign Agent
In scathing criticism directed at the federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik, a senior minister in the Balochistan government asked during a session of the Balochistan Assembly if the former was an agent of the foreign governments. Maulana Abdul Wasey, the senior minister from Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, while commenting on Mr. Malik’s consistent hostile and offensive statements [...]
CM’s Inspection Team to Investigation Corruption in Education Department
The Baloch Hal Monitoring Desk QUETTA: The Balochistan government wanted to push the matter of massive corruption of more than Rs 500 million in purchase of furniture and science equipment in Education Department under the carpet as instead of ensuring the inquiry of this huge bungling through an independent institution, the matter of investigation has [...]