COMMENT : A futile rearguard action Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

ISLAMABAD: The army on Monday deployed its troops in nine sensitive districts of Balochistan and is set to complete the process in the remaining 21 districts on Tuesday, a senior military official told Dawn. The deployment in Kalat, Khuzdar, Kharan, ...

QUETTA: Balochistan Home Secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani has said that a 15-day targeted operation by the army and Frontier Corps against the armed militants will commence today (May 1) in different parts of the province. It can be launched ...

Sher Muhammad Khan Terror and tragedy came back to haunt the citizens of Balochistan after the incident of Bolan Medical College and destruction of Quaid I Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah residency in Ziarat. Militants carried out a symbolic and ...

QUETTA - The government will not hold talks with those militants in Balochistan who are bent upon carrying out terrorism, rather they will be responded in the same coin, Interior Minister Ch Nisar Ali declared. Nisar was in Balochistan to review ...

A Gallup survey of the UK official body, DFID, conducted on July 20, 2012, disclosed that the vast majority of the Baloch people oppose the idea of an independent Balochistan. This proved quite true when in case of Balochsitan where like the ...

Quetta: Pakistani authorities are pulling out the stops to ensure peaceful polls in the restive province of Balochistan, which has at least two leaders of political parties arrayed against their brothers in insurgent groups that are opposed to the ...

Staff Report ISLAMABAD: A preliminary statement on the latest general election shows that in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), it is more difficult to say whether the election was fair because of a ...

The PML-N government will find itself in quicksand with so many adversaries fighting in so many directions on so many fronts One of the salient features of the last weeks free and fair elections was the polling of more than hundred percent. If that ...

AT the risk of annoying left-liberal friends in Pakistan with their obvious scorn for Imran Khan, let me say that I can now see in him a more agreeable prospect for their country than they would grant. And it is not in a rush of sympathy after his ...