Tag: Quetta
UN mission arrives in Quetta amidst appeals for help
The United Nations mission to review complaints of enforced disappearances in Balochistan arrived here on Saturday amidst protests by hundreds of family members of...
Floodwater submerges dozens of villages in Jafardabad, Kandhkot
Dozens of villagers were inundated after floodwater entered Jacobabad and Kandhkot from Balochistan on Saturday.
The floodwater entered Jafarabad from areas of Lehri and...
UN team on missing persons arrives in Quetta
A six-member working group of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances arrived here on Saturday.
The working group’s members were to...
Quetta goes on strike against laborers’ killing
A complete shutter down strike was observed in the provincial capital on Friday against the killing of ten laborers in Mastung. At least 10...
1 dead, 3 injured in Quetta blast
One man was killed and another three got injured when a bomb went off in Quetta on Wednesday. SHO Saleem Shawani said a mobile...
CJ orders crackdown against arms in Quetta
A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry resumed hearing of Balochistan law and order case at SC’s Quetta Registry on Saturday.
The...
SP gunned down in Quetta
Unidentified gunmen shot dead a superintendent of Quetta police in broad daylight on a busy road in the provincial capital on Friday. SP (Investigation)...
SP Investigation gunned down in Quetta; murder sparked protest
A high police official Jameel Kakar was gunned down and his one guard injured in the city’s area of Airport Road on Friday morning,...
Quetta doctors call off strike
The Balochistan doctors Thursday called off their protracted strike causing long queues of patients at the outdoor patient departments (OPDs) of the government hospitals.
However,...
Foreigners playing havoc; agencies sleeping in Balochistan: CJP
Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has said that the nation is ready to give every kind of sacrifice to save the country.
He said...
Doctors end strike in Quetta after Supreme Court orders
Doctors in Quetta, on Tuesday, announced an end to their 35-day strike after the chief justice of Pakistan directed them to end their protest...
CJ unhappy over police powers for FC in Quetta
Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Monday questioned the Balochistan government’s decision to give police powers to Frontier Corps in Quetta, asking...
7 more Hazaras gunned down in Quetta
Another seven Hazara Shias were gunned down in sectarian killings in Quetta on Saturday, as two members of a Baloch ethnic group were killed...
9 killed in separate incidents in Quetta
Nine persons have been killed in separate incidents in the provincial metropolis on Saturday.
In the first incident, unknown gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying five...
PIA flight makes emergency landing in Quetta
A Lahore-bound PIA’s plane made emergency landing at Quetta Airport this morning
due to a technical fault, media reports said on Friday.
According to Pakistan International...
Lawyers protest killing of judge in Quetta
The lawyers boycotted the court proceedings here on Thursday to condemn the killing of a session judge in Quetta the other day.
Addressing a general...
Quetta sessions judge shot dead
A senior sessions judge was shot dead along with his driver and police guard in Quetta in Thursday in an attack being attributed to...