Sardar Mengal spurns 18th amendment
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: Elderly Baloch nationalist leader, Sardar Ataullah Mengal, has rejected the 18th Constitutional Amendments saying that it is irrelevant in the current political situation in the region. In an interview with the BBC Urdu Service, he said that Concurrent List of the Constitution was an issue of 1970s and not now. [...]
BNP jammes wheels in major parts of Balochistan
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: Wheel Jam strike was observed in major parts of Balochistan. Traffic remained suspended on RCD and national highways on Thursday in response to the call made by Balochistan National Party (BNP) protesting against what they alleged police firing on peaceful demonstrators killing an activists and wounding five others. Most of [...]
Balochs only accept Sardar Mengal and Nawab Marri as their heroes: Dr. Jhanzaib Jamaldini
Interview by Malik Siraj Akbar The Baloch Hal has initiated a series of interviews with different nationalist leaders of Balochistan to ascertain the causes of failure of democracy in Pakistan. Leaders from different political parties were asked almost the same questions for the purpose of extracting the jest of views the nationalists in Balochistan have [...]
Naushki pays tributes to Langov
The Baloch Hal News NAUSHKI: Thousands of people paid glowing tributes to late Naseer Langov who was shot and killed in police firing during a protest demonstration. The Balochistan National Party established a camp in the township which was visited by political workers from different political parties, members of the civil society, journalists, writers, poets, [...]
News Analysis: “Mango diplomacy” will further divide the Balochs
By Malik Siraj Akbar This scribe was a part of a so-called peace delegation from Balochistan in August 2008 that visited Islamabad to meet people from different walks of life in order to inform them about the actual situation in Balochistan. Organized by a western non-governmental organization, the delegation comprised of representatives of political parties, [...]
Gilani assures Mengal of addressing Baloch grievances
The Baloch Hal News KARACHI: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, on Saturday said that government would do its best to address the grievances of the people of Balochistan, reported the official news agency. Gilani was talking to media after holding an hour-long meeting with seasoned Baloch leader Sardar Ataullah Khan Mengal here at his [...]