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Reconciliation in Balochistan
2008-05-03 19:00:00 The new Pakistan Democratic Alliance (PDA) government has done very well to make friends and brothers throughout Pakistan. Not only this has puffed a fresh blow across Pakistan, but also has helped in washing away some of the smeared face of country by the operations in Wana, Swat, Balochistan, Islamabad and elsewhere. Vendetta and politics have ...
Ghazala Gola Go-Kart in Balochistan
2008-04-26 18:00:00 In the biggest cabinet of all time of Balochistan Assembly, many ministers are relative of either each other are of chief minister Nawab Raisani or of governer Mugsi. But there are few who have genuinely comes from a middle class background and Begum Ghazala Gola is one of them. Mrs.Ghazala Gola Begum is the wife of ...
38 Ministers in 62-Member Balochistan Assembly
2008-04-25 03:00:00 But the remaining 24 need not to get much worried as the chief minister of Balochistan Nawab Aslam Raisani said that more ministers would be inducted at a later stage. One of the minister is the wife of the governer Balochistan, Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi and one other is the wife of a PPP minister, ...
Nawab Akbar Bugti Still Haunts Musharraf
2008-04-24 23:00:00 President Generalissimo (r) Pervez Musharraf said about Akbar Bugti and his companions that they were renegades, reactionary and violent elements hell bent on destroying Pakistan and he also angrily said that they wouldn’t know what had hit them. Yes, Akbar Bugti didn’t know what hit the cave he was hiding in, but he knew before hand ...
Musharraf Uses Kashmala Against Chaudharies
2008-04-20 00:00:00 The time has come full circle. The vicissitudes of power politics are showing the similarly striking features of deja vu. The starting point of PML-Q was the formation of forward bloc in PPP and PML-N, and now PML-Q is fast vaporizing in thin air as the forward bloc are forming in Punjab and in the ...
Balochistan Assembly sworn-in
2008-04-07 00:00:00 QUETTA: Balochistan Assembly session opened Monday here and newly elected 62 members of the 9th provincial assembly took the oath. The outgoing Speaker, Jamal Shah Kakar, has administered oath to the members of the house. Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has appeared as the only candidate ...
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Balochistan Karez
2008-04-02 11:08:00 West of Indus Plains and out of monsoon zone is Balochistan ? the largest landmass in Pakistan with an area of 343, 000 square kilometres.Balochistan is scarcely populated, mainly due to its daunting arid geography. It includes the mountainous country separated by intervening valleys. Balochistan receives very low rainfall annually. But innumerable natural springs known as "Karez" and streams are found in most of the areas. The ancient Karez system is comprised of a series of wells and linking underground channels that uses gravity to bring ground water to the surface, usually far from the source. Originally ancient towns used to depend on the streams and rivers nearby into which glaciers in far-off mountains used to feed. As the time passed the glaciers gradually shrank over the centuries, the streams they fed likewise diminished, resulting in less water flowing downwards. Then people ingeniously created the Karez to draw the underground water to irrigate the farmland. Wells begin ...
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Chief Hamara Ifthikhar!Quetta is celebrating
2008-04-01 18:11:00 Emotional scenes were witnessed at Lawyers convention in the premises of Baluchistan High Court when the deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry entered the pindal. Members of the Civil Society, Political Parties & Lawyers Community greeted their hero with rousing slogans of backing him up. In his address the Chief Justice of Pakistan had called PCO ...
Chief has been given tremendous welcome in Quetta!
2008-03-31 17:38:00 Deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry had landed at about 11:30 in the morning at Quetta Airport , where he was received by Ali Ahmed Kurd along with members of the Baluchistan Bar Association & out side the arrival lounge, hundreds & thousands of people belonged to civil society, political parties & student unions welcomed the ...
The Beast of Balochistan
2008-03-17 10:08:00 Owais MughalWorld?s largest mammal that ever walked the face of the earth used to live in Pakistan?s Balochistan province. Yes it is true.This mammal is called Baluchitherium (The Beast of Balochistan). So far the fossils of this mammal have only been found in Balochistan and Central Asia.In 1999, a team of French Palaentologists discovered the complete skeleton of this giant mammal in Dera Bugti Hills of Pakistan. The find came as the result of a 5 month long expedition by the French Team in the Balochistan desert.All in all it was a 5 year long on-and-off study. The French team was led by Professor Jean-Loup Welcomme of the Natural History Museum in Paris. While the first complete skeleton of Baluchitherium was dicscovered in 1999, it was as early as 1846 when first pieces of fossilized Baluchitherium were accidentally stumbled upon in Dera Bugti by a British Army officer who went by the name of Vickary.In 1909 another skeleton was found in the same area by a British team led by M...
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Pukhtoons are not terrorists!
2008-03-13 08:52:00 Pakistan is burning for the last few years in particular Pakhtoon belt. Not a single day passes with out any bomb blast, suicide attack, rocket firing & hand grenade being blasted or thrown on security forces. There are many aspects to the recent blood shed in our beloved country but the US attacks on Bajur’s seminary ...
What is the crime of ordinary citizens of Pakistan?
2008-03-13 08:00:00 Pakistanis are seething with anger and they are asking each other as who is there enemy and who is killing their children and their families, and who is blowing himself up without discrimination in the markets and the offices of this country? Whether these are the agents of International powers who want to see Pakistan unstable ...
Fazl decides to join coalition govt with PPP
2008-03-09 16:10:00 CNews ISLAMABAD: The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal (JUI), in a major breakthrough, announced on Saturday to join the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) to form coalition governments at the Centre and in Balochistan."We have taken a decision, in principle, to join the national consensus coalition government with the Pakistan People's Party at the Centre as well as in Balochistan," said JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman while addressing a joint press conference with PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari here at the Zardari House, after holding an hour-long meeting.With the JUI announcement to become a part of the PPP-led government at the Centre, the numerical strength of the PPP (120), PML-N (90), ANP (13) and JUI (6) reaches 229, which simply means that the four party alliance has two-thirds majority in the National Assembly."We are thankful to the people of Pakistan, particularly Balochistan, that Maulana Fazlur Rehman has announced to become a part of the national consensus coalition governm...
Coalition govt most likely in centre and three provinces
2008-02-19 16:25:00 CNews ISLAMABAD: In the backdrop of the election results thus far, no party could obtain clear majority and the alliance governments in centre and three provinces seem imminent, while the Pakistan People?s Party (PPP) has attained the position of forming its own government.Unofficial and provisional results showed that PPP has achieved the edge by obtaining maximum number of national assembly seats totaling thus far 88. Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) with 65 seats occupies coveted position, while the former ruling party Muslim League-Q could not obtain clear majority and it has bagged 37 seats. Among other major parties of the national assembly, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) secured 19 seats, Awami National Party 10, Muslim League (Functional) 4, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) 3, independent candidates and other political parties 27 seats.Among the provincial assemblies, PML-N has emerged as the largest party in Punjab assembly by securing 102 seats, PPP 78 and PML-Q got 66 seats....
Suspected Voting in Balochistan
2008-02-19 16:00:00 Overall the turn out remained low throughout the country. Initially it was thought out that this low voter turn out would favor the PML-Q, state party as they would have more room to rig the elections. Whether they tried to do it or not is meaningless now because if they didnt it doesnt make their ...
JUI(F) splits in Balochistan
2008-02-15 11:00:00 Last ray of hope for the reunion of two factions of JUI(F) vanished on Feb.8 when the premiere of the JUI Maulana Fazulrehman called upon the angry faction to withdraw it’s candidates for the MMA’s elected candidates, to which the angry faction was not willing & thus JUI(F) in Balochistan remain splitted in to two ...
Nawaz Sharif should speake about Aimal Khan Kassi!
2008-02-09 08:55:00 The people of Balochistan in general & of Quetta in particular had shown strong anti-American protests when their beloved son, Mir Aimal Khan Kassi was persecuted in Virginia USA in November 2002 on charges of killing two & injuring three CIA employees & then rushing back to Pakistan the very next day. In Pakistan CIA was ...
APDM got overwhelming support in -11 degree celcius in Quetta
2008-02-07 09:00:00 Last day APDM’s leadership were present in Quetta but were not sure about the possibility of people comminng to attened the proposed anti-election campaigne on behalf of APDM. But when the leaders of different parties steeped in to the pavillion of the old railway hockey ground Quetta, leading by the most influencial fighure in Balochisatn, Mahmood Khan Achakzai ...
Four persons including bomber killed in Balochistan blast
2008-02-07 00:00:00 NASIRABAD: Four people were killed, a bomber among them, in an explosion occurred here in Dera Murad Jamali, Nasirabad on Thursday. The blast took place in a nullah along the National Highway at a time when the bomber was installing explosives there, police sources said. Two people died on the spot while ...
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Students for True Democracy
2008-01-13 15:50:00 The Student Action Committee at a protest meeting in Karachi Company reiterated its demand for restoration of true democracy, withdrawal of the military from politics, abolition of class system of education and creation of a welfare state. Representatives of Quaid-i-Azam University, International Islamic University, Punjab College of Commerce and other schools, colleges and universities participated in ...
Mukherjee, wait for retaliation
2008-01-13 13:26:00 Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has expressed his views that he has ?tremendous faith? in the ?resilience? of the Pakistani system and people to overcome the current crisis. He said in an interview: “There is a problem no doubt but at the same time I am quite confident of the resilience of the system ...
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2007-12-29 12:06:00 NABEEL ARSHED, STUDENT, RAWALPINDINabeel Arshed feels the country is spiralling out of controlI was in Rawalpindi town at the time of the assassination. I heard anexplosion but suicide bombs have become routine in this country so I didn't giveit a second thought. When I turned on the news I got the shock of my life. I come from a family with rightist sympathies but we all feel as if ourmother had died. She was a liberal force, a hope for a Pakistan overrun bymilitancy. Now there is a great vacuum. My fears are for Pakistan's unity. She went to the restive province ofBalochistan and handed her support to the people there. Whatever we were goingthrough, I felt as if she had the power to unite the provinces of Pakistan. Nowyou can already hear the separatist movement. Those voices are becoming stronger now that there is no national leader inPakistan. We were already in a downward spiral, heading towards extremism. Thiswas the last straw: killing a stalwart for democracy. We were goin...
Countrywide protests, killings and arson
2007-12-29 11:58:00 CNews ISLAMABAD: At least 27 people were killed and many wounded in violence during a nationwide outpouring of grief and a protest strike over Benazir Bhutto?s assassination while army was deployed in 16 districts of Sindh and paramilitary forces elsewhere in the country.A complete general strike and funeral prayer congregations in all the country?s four provinces, Azad Kashmir and Northern Areas marked the day as the former prime minister, killed in an unidentified assassin?s gun-and-bomb attack in Rawalpindi on Thursday, was buried beside her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto at their ancestral Garhi Khuda Bux village.But protests at several places turned violent, with demonstrators attacking and burning both public and private properties, mostly in Sindh where 17 people were reported killed in Karachi and 10 in eight towns in other parts of the province.An army statement in Rawalpindi said the troops had been deployed in 16 Sindh districts, including Karachi, on the requisition of the p...
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2007-11-19 10:38:00 President advises election on Jan 8KARACHI: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has recommended to the election commission to hold general elections on Jan 8, 2008. He stated this while addressing members of the now dissolved Sindh Assembly at the Chief Minister house here. He hoped coalition parties would again win the election if they remained united. The president said assemblies have completed their tenure for the first in the country's history. He said a few people were trying to create instability and talking about boycotting the election, adding these elements have no confidence even in themselves and declared that election would be held on January 8. The president appreciated performance of Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad and Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim and said credit goes to them for running the coalition set-up smoothly. He also appreciated the role of the Sindh assembly speaker for running the house in proper and dignified manner.He also thanked Pir Pagara and MQM c...
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2007-11-09 11:09:00 Benazir placed under house arrest (Details updated at 1215 and first updated at 940)ISLAMABAD: Former premier and PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has been put under house arrest Friday, hours before she was due to lead a rally against a state of emergency, government officials said. "She is being placed under house arrest," a senior government official said on condition of anonymity. Nearly 200 police sealed off Bhutto's house in Islamabad with barbed wire and a magistrate went inside, apparently with the arrest order, hours before she was due to lead the demonstration in neighbouring Rawalpindi. A senior leader of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, senator Anwar Baig, said outside her house: "This is illegal confinement. This is illegal detention of a democratic leader." "We tried to convince Benazir Bhutto to cancel the rally but she did not agree, and we had no choice but to implement these restrictions," a senior police official said. The government also deployed 6,000 police o...
Pak Army trying to control Balochistan by force: ICG report
2007-10-23 09:53:00 The Pakistan Army is determined to impose state control in Balochistan through force instead of redressing Baloch political and economic grievances, an International Crisis Group ...
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2007-10-14 13:55:00 CNews ISLAMABAD: Eid-ul-Fitr was celebrated with religious enthusiasm and fervor across Pakistan yesterday (Sunday). Eid prayers offered at Eidgahs, mosques and open places all over the country. In their sermons, Ulema highlighted the philosophy of Eid and prayed for progress and solidarity of the country and Muslim Ummah.Security was tightened in Islamabad to ensure safety of the citizens. The city was divided in three zones. Major congregations of Eid in federal capital were held at Faisal Masjid and Lal Masjid. Stringent security measures were taken in Karachi, Lahore, Quetta and Peshawar, while special security was arranged around mosques, Eidgahs and Imambargahs in all major cities and towns. Additional security contingents were deployed and ambulances arranged at key places to meet any untoward incident. In Karachi about 1500 Eid congregations were held, the largest gathering was held under the city government at Bagh-e-Jinnah, where Maulana Muhammad Ahmed Salimi led the praye...
Explosion in Qalat
2007-10-08 17:00:00 CNews QALAT: A bomb has been exploded in district Qalat of Balochistan but no causality was reported.Police sources said that unknown persons planted a bomb near a shop in Harboiada area of Qalat that exploded with a bang. The windowpanes of nearby buildings were shattered by the blast, however, no loss of life was reported.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
Musharraf to summon high level meeting next week
2007-10-07 20:00:00 ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf will call a high level meeting next week to hold consultations for strategy after the presidential election till November 15, sources said.Chief ministers of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan would also meet the president in next week, sources added.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
Lawyers stage demo outside Balochistan Assembly
2007-10-06 14:00:00 CNews QUETTA: Lawyers protesting against the presidential election brought out a rally and staged a demonstration in front of the Balochistan Assembly here.High Court Bar Association?s president, Hadi Shakil, Raja Rabnawaz, Sabir Jamil advocates and other senior lawyers were leading the protest rally brought out from the District Court here.The lawyers voiced slogans against President?s election and termed it unconstitutional, while taking rounds of different roads, which had turned into a public meeting.The leaders of the legal community in their address on this occasion condemned the presidential election and said that the election of a President in uniform was illegal, which they would not accept under any circumstances. They vowed to further expand and electrify their protest movement against the President?s uniform and said that the people from all school of thoughts would have to support this movement.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
5 of a family die in Balochistan Musakhel traffic mishap
2007-10-03 19:29:00 QUETTA: Five persons of a family died, when a vehicle of the vagabonds in an unfortunate mishap overturned at Musakhel district of Balochistan.Police sources said that the mishap occurred on Kangari Musakhel Road of district Musakhel, as the speeding tractor trolley of vagabonds overturned, resulting in the death of five persons including three women and one child, while 12 were wounded. The injured were shifted to Loralai Hospital for medical aid.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
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VIDEO: Hingol National Park & Mud Volcanoes of Balochistan
2007-09-25 12:00:00 Owais Mughal In March 2007 we introduced the Mud Volcanoes of Balochistan. Many photos of that post were taken from the website of 4×4 Off-Roaders Club. I recently had an email conversation with Mr. Hamid Omar , a member of this club, who introduced me to the following Video. It shows the adventures of the club ...
Govt paying full heed to Balochistan needs
2007-09-09 07:00:00 ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said Saturday that federal government is all alive to the development pre-requisites of Balochistan and giving Popularity: unranked [?] Read more at KnightRider
Pakistan Gives: ATP?s Contribution to Cyclone Relief in Balochistan
2007-07-12 12:30:00 Owais Mughal and Adil Najam Like may others, we at All Things Pakistan (ATP; Pakistaniat.com) are extremely concerned that in all the ‘high politics’ of the Lal Masjid operation, the Chief Justice saga, the opposition parties meeting in London and so much more that seems to be happening in Pakistan today, we are forgetting the plight ...
Of Balochistan, Bhutto and Milbus
2007-06-10 07:34:00 This week’s Outlook magazine has a number of Pakistan related stories including a profile of Generation Next of the Bhuttos as well as a review of Dr. Ayesha’s book. The review of Military Inc is a short ...
Balochistan passing through most critical period after Bugti's death, sa
2007-04-30 18:45:00 Peshawar, Apr 30 : Nawabzada Talal Bugti, the son of the late Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti, has said that the people of Balochistan were passing through the most critical period after the death of his father.
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Attitude Tourism in Lasbela, Balochistan
2007-03-21 16:39:00 S.A.J. Shirazi Has anyone done attitude tourism? I have. That was in Lasbela — an ancient tract surrounded by hills above the Arabian Sea. Before me Alexander from Macedonia was there; Young Muslim Generals Muhammad Bin Qasim and Muhammad Bin Haroon were there; and lately British bureaucrat Sir Robert Sandeman was there. Attitude tourism - to be distinguished ...
Mud Volcanoes of Balochistan
2007-03-03 00:02:02 Owais Mughal Pakistan’s Balochistan province is gifted with a diverse landscape. Among many geological wonders here, one big attraction is the presence of 18 mud volcanoes. Infact world’s largest and highest known mud volcano is located in Balochistan. The altitiude of highest mud volcano here is 300 ft. The mud volcanoes of Balochistan are not only located on the land but from time to time they appear as small temporary islands in the Arabian Sea also. To reach the most famous group of these mud volcanoes, one has to travel west of Karachi on the Makran Coastal Highway (N10). The turnoff to the volcanoes is 38 km short of Hungol (also pronounced as Hingol) river. A 1×1 ft board here says ‘Sapt Post’. Get off the road at this sign and follow the dirt tracks towards Arabian Sea and you’ll reach the mud volcanoes. The signboard photo to the right above is the place where Makran Coastal highway meets River Hungol (also pronounced as Hingol). 7 mud v...
Editorial: The fate of APC on Balochistan - Daily Times
0000-00-00 00:00:00 TopNewsEditorial: The fate of APC on BalochistanDaily Times, Pakistan -7 hours agoHe has tendered an apology to Balochistan — including to “people who have gone to the mountains to wage war” — on behalf of the people of Pakistan, ...Balochistan NRC meeting told Mengal doesn’t want to be releasedThe Postall 15 news ...
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