Two More Baloch Youths Killed and Dumped in Khuzdar
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: Two more bullet-riddled dead bodies have been discovered in Khuzdar district, some 360 KM southeast of Quetta, on Monday. According to Levies Force officials, local people informed the Levies Force that two dead bodies were lying dumped in Lakhurain area of Khuzdar. At this, Levies personnel rushed to the site [...]
VBMP Protest Demands Monthly Hearings of Missing Persons’ Case
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) on Monday staged a protest demonstration outside the Quetta Press Club (QPC) demanding safe release of all the missing persons. They also appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan to hold monthly hearings on the issue of missing persons in Quetta. Women and [...]
Six More Hazaras Gunned Down in Quetta
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: In yet another case of sectarian targeted killing, six people belonging to Hazara community were shot dead and three others were left with serious injuries when armed men ambushed a shop on Prince Road of Quetta, on Monday night. Unidentified masked men riding a motorbike sprayed a volley of bullets [...]
Quetta Police Detain 50 Suspects
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: The police arrested 50 suspected persons during search operations in different areas of Quetta late Tuesday night and recovered arms from their possession. According to Superintendent of Police (SP) Quaidabad Circle, Muhammad Hashim, after targeted killing of two persons at Mc’Congy Road area, the police conducted search operation in Gowalmandi, [...]
Bar President Says Federal, Provincial Governments Have No Satisfactory Justification for the Crisis in Balochistan
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: The President of High Court Bar Association Zahoor Ahmed Shahwani has said that the provincial and the federal governments had failed to come up with a satisfactory response to the Supreme Court bench in spite of having been asked to prepare a detailed report about the people who have been [...]
ANP Delegation Visits HDP Office to Condole Hazara Killings
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: A delegation of the Awami National Party (ANP), a Pashtun nationalist party, led by provincial president Aurangzaib Kasi, visited the office of Hazara Democratic Party (HDP) here on Tuesday to offer condolence over the recent killing of Hazara youth, children and women who were killed in recent times by a [...]
BNP Hopes Chief Justice’s Visit to Quetta Will Lead to Recovery of Missing Activists
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: The Balochistan National Party (BNP) says it is pinning great expectations from the Chief Justice’s ongoing trip to Quetta hoping that it would lead to securing the relase of all Baloch missing persons. A BNP statement issued here from the party’s secretariat said that the Chief Justice should play his [...]
The Role of Media in Baluchistan
By Mariyam Baluch The media is generally referred to various means of communication such as television, radio, newspaper, websites or books. The term “media” can be used as a collective word for press. From a couple of years, the role of media in Baluchistan has been discussed on various TV talk shows, radio channels and [...]
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Kills Two More Hazaras in Quetta
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: Two more people belonging to Hazara community fell victim of the ongoing unchecked cycle of sectarian killings in the provincial capital on Tuesday night. According to police, unidentified armed assailants opened indiscriminate fire on two different shops at Mecongy Road. As a result, two people, belong to Hazara community were [...]
BNP Opposes Chinese Exploitation of Baloch Resources
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: The Balochistan National Party (Mengal) has said resources of Baloch-land are being looted ruthlessly for the past six decades and China is equally responsible in this plundering. In a condemnation statement, the BNP said that China had made conspiracies to loot Asia’s largest copper and gold projects of Reko Diq [...]