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Quetta blast death toll now eight
QUETTA Death toll in Sunday's deadly suicide attack near residence of Balochistan Police chief in Quetta has reached eight as one of the 97 wounded succumbed to his injuries at a military hospital here on Monday. Seven people were killed and 97 wounded late Sunday ...
Bomber flattens IGP’s house in Quetta
QUETTA - At least six people were killed and over 50 others wounded when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near Balochistan Police chief’s residence in Quetta late on Sunday night. Security sources said an unidentified bomber struck his explosives-packed vehicle ...
CJP Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry casts vote in Quetta
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Saturday cast his vote in NA-259 Quetta.Speaking to reporters, the CJP said that the holding of general elections in Pakistan is a proof of rule of law in Pakistan. “We hope that parliamentary system would go on”.The CJP urged people of ...
Five hurt as bomb explodes outside PPP office in Quetta
Five people sustained injuries when a bomb exploded outside an election office of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in Quetta on Friday.According to initial reports, the blast occurred near the Western Bypass.Many vehicles were reportedly damaged in the attack.Police and rescue officials reached the ...
Bullet-riddled body found in Quetta
QUETTA - A bullet-riddled body was found in Quetta while gas pipeline was exploded in Pat Feeder area of Balochistan on Saturday.According to Levies, a dead body was found in the deserted area of Spain Karez in the outskirts of Quetta. The body was shifted to hospital for medico-legal ...
Quetta Express attacked in Machh
quetta - Unidentified people attacked Quetta Express with rockets in Machh area of Bolan districts, some 40 Kilometers southeast of Quetta, on Friday.Levies sources said that Quetta Express was near Machh Railway station when armed men from nearby mountains fired two rockets which landed close to ...
Multiple blasts rattle Karachi, Quetta
Karachi/Quetta (Agencies) - The country appears to have no respite from terrorism as nine more people were dead and dozens injured in fresh spate of bombings in Karachi and Quetta on Tuesday. Three people were killed and two dozen others wounded in a blast near the election office of MQM at ...
Bomb attacks wound 17 in Pakistan: police
Bomb attacks wounded 17 people in Quetta on Wednesday and targeted an election candidate in the run-up to historic general elections in the nuclear-armed country, police said.The first attack wounded 13 people near a mosque and a private hospital in Quetta, police said.The bicycle bomb exploded in ...
BNP-Mengal office attacked with grenade in Quetta
quetta - The office of Balochistan National Party (Mengal) was attacked with hand grenade on Sariab locality of Quetta, police said on Thursday.Unidentified armed men riding a motorbike hurled hand grenade at the office of BNP-Mengal set up PB-V constituency on Kili Kamalo area, which landed inside ...
Aftershock of magnitude 6 jolt parts of Balochistan again
An aftershock of magnitude six on Richter scale jolted parts of Balochistan again on Wednesday morning creating fright and panic among the people.According to details, an earthquake hit the Mashkel Tehsil of Washuk district of Balochistan located on the Pak-Iran borde. The tremor centered in ...
7.8 magnitude earthquake shakes Karachi, Quetta, New Delhi other Asian cities
A strong earthquake measuring magnitude 7.8 on Richter scale jolted Asian and Gulf countries specially Pakistani cities including Karachi, Islamabad, Hyderabad, Lahore and Quetta cityon Tuesday afternoon.The epicenter of the huge quake was 86km (53 miles) from Iranian city of Khash, near Pakistan's ...
Khoso reaches Quetta today
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso who was due to leave here for Quetta on Tuesday could not proceed due to inclement weather. Now, the Prime Minister would visit provincial capital on Wednesday (today). During his visit, Prime Minister Khoso will meet Governor Balochistan Nawab Magsi ...
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Influential Khattaks in field to conquer Nowshera
PESHAWAR - Electioneering is picking up momentum in Nowshera as the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP-P), Awami National Party (ANP) and Pakistan Tahrik-e-Insaf (PTI) have fielded senior politicians from Khattak tribe to win elections from the NA-5 Nowshera-I ...
DSP, gunman gunned down in Quetta
QUETTA - A deputy superintendent of police (DSP) was gunned down along-with his official guard in a target killing incident here on Monday.Amir Muhammad Dasti, an officer on special duty, was coming from his home towards the city along with a police guard when four armed persons covering their ...
Caretaker PM to visit Quetta on Wednesday
Caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mir Hazar Khan Khoso who was due in Quetta on Tuesday could not come due to inclement weather.Due to bad weather, visit of PM Khoso has been cancelled; Official sources confirmed adding he would reach his home province on Wednesday.During his visit, Prime ...
Akthar Mengal reaches Quetta today
QUETTA - The chief of Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) and former Balochistan chief minister Sardar Akthar Mengal will reach Quetta on Sunday (today).Sardar Akthar Mengal is visiting Quetta after about four years as he remained abroad on self-exile. However, he ended his self-exile and ...
Five of a family killed in Quetta road mishap
Five persons including two women and a child were killed when a passenger bus collided with a car on Quetta-Chaman Highway on Friday.According to Levies sources, a passenger bus enroute to Quetta from Chaman collided with a car that killed five persons including two women and a child of the same ...
Korea to install 300MW solar power plant in Quetta
QUETTA - A Memorandum of Understand has been signed between Government of Balochistan and CK Solar Korea for the installation of 300MW Solar Power plant near Quetta.This was disclosed by provincial Secretary Energy, Fuad Hashim Rabbani while talking to media here on Saturday.He said that the ...
Quetta police recover 50-kg explosives
QUETTA – Police foiled a terror bid, recovering 50-kg explosives from an auto rickshaw at Sariab Road here on Tuesday.DIG Investigation Mubeen Ahmed said police were informed that some terrorists had planned to target Sariab Police Station and an auto rickshaw was being used for the purpose. ...
Ending Quetta sit-in prematurely not good: Altaf
KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain has criticised the decision of Shiite elders to end Quetta protest and sit-in state without taking the bereaved families into confidences as the demands were not fulfilled. He was addressing the MQM's Rabta Committee simultaneously ...
Quetta blast’s victims laid to rest in Hazara graveyard
Mass burials for 89 victims of a bomb attack targeting Shiite Muslims began Wednesday after three days of nationwide protests at the government's failure to tackle sectarian violence.Tensions were running high as up to 4,000 mourners gathered to bury the dead in the southwestern city of ...
Quetta tragedy conspiracy to ignite sectarian violence: Rehman Malik
Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said Quetta tragedy is a conspiracy to ignite sectarian violence in the country.Talking to newsmen in Tehran he said Hazara dominated localities in Quetta will be declared Red Zone and additional police contingent will be deployed there.To a question‚ ...
Quetta shuts to mourn Hazara Town blast
A shutter down strike is being observed on Sunday in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan to mourn Saturday’s deadly blast which killed at least 83 people and injured over 190 others.The strike call was given by Majlis-e-Wahdat-ul-Muslimeen (MWM), Hazara Democratic Party, Shia Ulema Council, ...
Quetta incident failure of law enforcement agencies, says Zulfiqar Magsi
Balochistan Governor Zulfiqar Ali Magsi has called the Quetta incident a collapse of the security system of government and its intelligence agencies.Talking to media persons on Sunday, Zulfiqar Maqsi said that despite tall claims of the federal government and law enforcement agencies terrorism ...
Quetta: Five killed, seven abducted in various incidents
Some unidentified persons shot dead four personnel of ‘Aman Force’, while seven others were abducted here at on Saturday.According to Levy sources, Dilbar Mitt, an area of Dera Bugti armed assailants opened fire on Aman Force resulted to loss of four personels.The local administration ...
Quetta police still clueless about blast accused
QUETTA - No crucial headway has been made into the investigation of Jan 10th bomb blasts in Quetta that could lead to the perpetrators despite lapse of six days.Law-enforcement agencies have arrested dozens of accused persons from different localities of Quetta in this connection who are being ...
Quetta sore rankles
LAHORE – The imposition of governor rule in Balochistan could not heal the wounds of Quetta bombings as the carnage sore continues rankling the nation.On the third night of protest by Hazaras and the people at large across the country, Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Asharf ousted the utterly ...
Quetta charnage: siege of Governor House goes on
LAHORE – The siege of Governor House to show solidarity with Hazaras entered the second day on Sunday.Like other parts of the county, the Majilis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen led demonstration in the City against the massacre of Hazaras in Quetta. The violence-hit families staged a sit-in on Alamdar ...
Hazara community ends protest, 83 dead bodies buried in Quetta
Hazara Community on Monday buried the dead bodies at Behisht Zehra graveyard on Alamdar Road as Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf announced Governor's rule in Balochistan. Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ahsraf held constructive talks with the protesting Hazara Community in Quetta on Sunday. PM after ...
PM in Quetta for talks with Hazara community
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf arrived Sunday in the southwestern city of Quetta to meet Shiite Muslim families refusing to bury their dead after devastating bombings, officials said. At least 92 people were killed and 121 wounded Thursday in twin suicide attacks claimed by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in ...
