Judicial Commission records statements
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: Sixty three people, relatives of missing persons, have recorded their statements before the Judicial Commission during the past three days long hearing in the office of Provincial Ombudsman in Quetta. The Commission was formed to trace and release the missing persons on the directives of Prime Minster Yusuf Raza Gilani. [...]
Implementing Balochistan Package with a slow speed
By Siddiq Baluch Six months back, the Prime Minister had announced the Balochistan package with a clear intention to bring back normalcy and restore peace in Balochistan by taking specific administrative and political measures. If one goes into the details of the package, then he will find every thing in the package to speed up [...]
Arms cache recovered in Zhob
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: Law enforcement agencies have recovered a huge quantity of arms and ammunition from Sambaza area of Zhob, a border township of Balochistan with Afghanistan and Waziristan during a raid on Wednesday. Official sources said acting on a tip-off, personnel of law enforcing agencies conducted a raid at a house in [...]
Cyclonic ‘Phet’ to lash Baloch coast this noon
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: The tropical cyclone ‘Phet’, a Thai word meaning Diamond, is likely to lash the coast of Sindh and Balochistan during the next 24 hours. The Metrological Department of Pakistan reported that a powerful cyclone developing in Central Indian Ocean and it is moving southward towards the Indian state of Gujrat [...]
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, [...]
Two, including Sunni scholar, killed in Quetta
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: Unknown gunmen shot dead two persons, including a religious scholar hailing from Sunni sect in an incident of sectarian killing here in the provincial capital on Monday night. According to police sources, Qari Abdul Matin along with his companion Muhammad Usman was coming out of his house at Tughi Road [...]
Balochistan govt to invest more on Riko Diq project: CM Raisani
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani has said that it was essential that youth of Balochistan should become a part of country’s establishment so that Balochistan should also get chance to rule. Talking to a group of journalists, here on Monday, he said that restoration of Levies Forces had [...]
BA secretary gains life membership of Commonwealth Parliament’s body
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: Mr. Muhammad Khan Mengal, Secretary, Balochistan Provincial Assembly has been made life member of the Society of Clerks (Secretaries)-at-the-Table in Commonwealth Parliaments. He is the first Pakistani official to become the life member of such a prestigious forum at international level. Mr. Mengal was bestowed with this honour through a [...]
Balochistan minister accused of beating up govt officer
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: Executive Engineer of the Communication and Works Department has lodged an application for registration of a criminal case against the Minister for Labour and Manpower, Government of Balochistan, in which he complained that minister had assaulted him and beaten him up publicly for not abiding by the minister’s “illegal and [...]
Victims of 1935 Quetta earthquake remembered
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: Victims of 1935 earthquake disaster in Quetta and other neighbouring human settlements were remembered at a simple ceremony here on Monday. Tens of thousand of people lost their lives in Quetta and other major townships of Central Balochistan in the massive earthquake on May 31, 1935. People offered prayers for [...]