Tag: Quetta

QUETTA - Unidentified gunmen on Monday kidnapped a professor of Bolan Medical College, Quetta, police said.
According to the police, Mumtaz Naqvi, professor of BMC, was way to college when on Sabzal Road unidentified men intercepted his vehicle and whished him away to unknown location.
Police have registered a case and started further probe.

QUETTA - A policeman was among four people killed and seventeen injured in a rocket attack in Quetta on Wednesday. Three rockets were fired from the western side of the provincial capital, all of which landed in a populated area.
One of the rockets, believed to have been fired by Baloch militants landed at Sariab Patak, close to the personal residence of Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani. The first attack killed four people, including Traffic Sergeant Safdar Hussain.
The

QUETTA - Balochistan Chief Minister Aslam Raisani on Saturday expressed concern over incidents of targeted killing and abduction and directed the inspector general of police (IGP) and the home secretary for tightening security and taking action against the criminals.
The chief minister condemned the three targeted killings on Friday and sympathised with the bereaved families and asked the authorities to compensate them for their loss. Raisani directed the police to improve its

QUETTA - Two children were injured in a toy bomb explosion in Quetta's suburbs on Monday. According to police, Attaur Rehman was playing with his sister Bilqees, 6, near his house located at Kirani Road when they found a hard object and started playing with it. Resultantly, the object exploded and seriously injured both the children who were later shifted to a hospital. Police spotted an improvised explosive device (IED) attached with an electric pylon at Kirani Road and called the

Quetta - The lawyer community protested outside the Quetta Press Club on Saturday against the abduction of their four colleagues, announcing to initiate protest demonstrations and rallies on daily basis till the safe recovery of abductees.
They also threatened to besiege the chief minister's house against the extra-judicial arrest of lawyers and political workers and recovery of mutilated bodies of missing persons. The demonstration was jointly organized by all three lawyers'

LAHORE - Quetta's Ghani Muhammadan FC will return back to Balochistan on Monday after three-match tour of Lahore where they won one match and drew the other two. The team comprised Hanif Muhammad (President), Akhlaq Khan (manager), Gul Muhammad (coach), Dilawar Khan (Captain), Muhammad Anwar, Muhammad Ismail Shahwani, Sana Ullah, Noor Muhammad, Naik Nazar, Abdul Wahid, Abdul Mannan, Abdullah, Muhammad Shafi, Chengiz Khan.
During the tour, they were hosted by ICC Award recipient

QUETTA - A complete shutter down was observed here in the city on Friday against gas and power load shedding on the call of Anjuman-e Tajiran Balochistan (ATB). President ATB alleged that government failed to provide protection to the masses and property. The business community demanded the government should end unscheduled power break down throughout the province.
Political parties have also supported the strike call of the business community. ATB President Abdul Rahim Kakar

QUETTA - Gun violence on late Wednesday night left two people killed and one man wounded in an incident of targeted killing, police said. The shooting took place when armed men riding a motorbike attacked on a photostat shop in Shahbaz Town area. Both the dead men, identified as Mohammad Iftikhar and Najamul Saqib, were brothers.
Police said all the three men were Punjabi settlers in Balochistan. The bodies and the injured man, Mohammad Umar, were brought to Civil Hospital Quetta.

QUETTA - Gunmen shot dead 4 police officers and abducted 6 other people, including a top administrator, from Aab-e-Gum area of the mountainous Bolan region, 60 kilometres south of Quetta, officials said Wednesday. "Gunmen shot dead four policemen on the main highway while they were heading towards Quetta," local police official Junaid Ahmad said.
"Earlier, we had reports of 5 police being killed but one of the policemen, who disappeared into the nearby mountains reported to his

QUETTA - Seven people, including four policemen were injured when a car bomb exploded in Quetta on Saturday. However, the police officer who was the prime target of the attack remained unhurt. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) claimed the responsibility for the attack.
The bomb, planted in a Suzuki car, exploded as the official vehicle of Superintendent of Police Investigation Shabaan Bangash passed through Nechari Road injuring four police guards and three civilians. However, Bangash

QUETTA - The Provincial President of Jahmoori Watan Party, Shahzain Bugti, could not kick start his long march towards Dera Bugti from Quetta on Friday after the Balochistan government barred Shahzain from leaving Quetta for 90 days. He was not allowed to lead the march by a large police contingent outside his residence.
Shahzain announced that he would approach a court of law to challenge the government's order of restriction on his movement. Shahzain had announced to march

QUETTA - Quetta police has recovered an eight-year-old boy who was kidnapped for ransom from Quetta two weeks ago. District Inspector General (DIG) Wazir Khan Nasar said this while addressing a press conference at his office on Friday.
He added that unidentified people kidnapped Faisal from Sariab on January 12 and demanded Rs 5 million as ransom from his family. He said a joint team of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) senior superintendent of police (SSP) and deputy

QUETTA - Four people were killed and one other received serious injuries in two separate blasts that occurred in bordering town of Mand of Kechh district and Chamalang area of Kohlu district on Tuesday.
Unidentified people placed a roadside explosive in Mand which exploded soon after a vehicle passed by, resulting in Abid's and Kareem's death, Levies officials said, adding that the vehicle belonged to Babu Dakiat. Soon after the incident Levies and personnel of Frontier Corps

LAHORE - A constitutional petition has been moved before the Lahore High Court to seek judicial inquiry through a Supreme Court judge, into the murder of the parents of Justice Javed Iqbal of the Apex Court which took place at their Cavalry Ground residence on January 11.
The petitioner, advocate Muhammad Azhar Siddique has moved the petition in the public interest enlisting interior ministry of federal and the provincial government, Federal Investigating Agency, and the Police

QUETTA - Five people, including two women, were burnt in an explosion caused by gas leakage in a house on Quetta's Raisani Road on Monday. Police said explosion occurred when a woman lit a matchstick in a room filled with gas that caused the explosion injuring Paind Khatoon, Khadeeja, Hayat, Naimat Ullah and Naeem. The Injured were shifted to the Bolan Medical Complex

QUETTA - The Balochistan Levies on Thursday found four bodies of missing persons in Kechh district's border town of Mund, some 500 kilometres west of Quetta.
According to police, the levies got a tip off after which they searched and found four bodies Mund, close to Iranian border. They were taken to a local levy station to be dispatched to Turbat District Headquarter Hospital for autopsy.
The men had been shot with a pistol at pointblank range in the heads and all bodies

QUETTA - Another four bullet riddled bodies of Baloch missing persons were found in Quetta and Mastung districts on Sunday.
Police said two bodies were found near Killi Qambrani in the jurisdiction of Shalkot police station. The bodies were moved to Bolan Medical Complex Hospital where they were identified as Zubair Sarpara and Tariq.
In Mastung, police found two bodies from Dasht Bado area of the district. They were later identified as Sohbat Marri and Shadain Marri. The