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US Ambassador Cameron Munter met Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani on Thursday. Reportedly, Raisani informed the US ambassador that Mullah Omar and Ayman Al...

Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani’s dream to win back his ancestral area – Mahargarh – from his traditional rival tribes by using the...

Addressing a point of order during the Balochistan Assembly session on Wednesday, the Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani said that funds of...

Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani has deprived Minister for Communication and Works Sadiq Umrani, who is the provincial chief of the PPP, from...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Wednesday asked the Balochistan chief minister to approach veteran Baloch leaders for wooing 'estranged' groups of the province.
Gilani expressed his hope that the tribal elders could work for greater reconciliation between the government and the dissident group. The PM said this in a meeting with Balochistan CM Aslam Raisani at his Chamber in the Parliament House.
He said the government has withdrawn army from troubled areas

QUETTA - The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Balochistan's parliamentary group has reposed its confidence in the leadership of Chief Minister (CM) Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani for protecting the rights of the people of the province.
The members of parliamentary delegation led by Provincial Minister and PPP Balochistan President Mir Sadiq Umrani called on the chief minister here on the other day.
The delegation was of Member National Assembly (MPA) and PPP Balochistan General

QUETTA - Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani has offered European Union and Central Asian Republics provision of all facilities for setting up their trade consulates in Gwadar and launching development projects on BOT basis.
He expressed these views at a meeting with the French consul general who called on him here the other day. Balochistan ministers, Abdul Khaliq Achakzai and Mir Asad Baloch, Chief Secretary Ahmad Bakhsh Lehri and French Honourary Consul General

QUETTA - Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani has praised President Asif Ali Zardari for his decision to file a reference for reopening the case of late prime minister and the founding chairman of the Pakistan Peoples' Party Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
In a statement issued on Saturday, the chief minister welcomed the move to request the Supreme Court for reopening and re-conducting hearing into the judicial murder of the late PPP leader, saying the President Zardari's

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 - Referring to the remarks of PPP MPA Ali Madad Jattak during the Balochistan Assembly's session that the PML-N ministers should be sacked from the PPP-led cabinet, Raisani Tuesday said Jattak spoke in his personal capacity and had nothing to do with his coalition government.
He said that he would not let the political situation of Punjab to affect the politics in Balochistan. Talking to journalists after Balochistan Assembly's session, the chief minister said several

ISLAMABAD - Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani, who governs the poorest province of the country, has assets worth millions of rupees in immovable property in six districts, including agricultural land, plots, houses and godowns, painting a clear divide between the rich and the poor.
Per the asset declarations for year 2010 submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Maulvi Abdul Samad, a member of the Balochistan Assembly, is the poorest member of the

QUETTA - Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani Sunday said the coalition government was working smoothly, adding that no suggestion was under consideration about downsizing of the provincial cabinet.
Talking to Online, Raisani noted that there had always been a coalition government in Balochistan as no political party ever gained majority in the assembly to form the government without support of others.
The chief minister said all parliamentary leaders

QUETTA - The Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani has said that the approval of 32 development schemes, shelved years ago, worth Rs 28 billion for Balochistan clearly indicates the change in the attitude of the federal government and signified success for the people of Balochistan.
Raisani said this while talking to reporters on Monday at Quetta airport upon his arrival from Islamabad after chairing the meeting of Central Development Working Party (CDWP). The

QUETTA - All parliamentary groups in the Balochistan Assembly (BA) have expressed their complete confidence in the leadership of Chief Minister Aslam Raisani. A meeting of eight parliamentary groups was held at the CM Secretariat on Saturday with Raisani in the chair.
The participants expressed confidence in the performance of the provincial government and reiterated their resolve to continue the struggle for the development of the province and resolution of its problems. The

LAHORE: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has decided to "rescue" Democratic Party provincial President Shahzain Bugti by telephoning Prim Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and Balochistan Chief Minister Aslam Raisani to play their role in resolving the issue.
In a telephonic conversation on Friday, Nawaz asked the leaders to handle Shahzain's case carefully giving it extraordinary attention as the issue was awash with the highest level of sensitivity.
"The situation in Balochistan

ISLAMABAD: In what seems to be a pre-emptive attempt to block the possible alliance of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) for overthrowing the Balochistan government, a threatened and perturbed Balochistan Chief Minister Aslam Raisani on Tuesday rushed to meet JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman.
Fazl, however, assured Raisani that he had no such plans and did not want to form a coalition with the PML-Q in Balochistan. "Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain

ISLAMABAD: Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani said he was a "dangerous man" and nothing could deter him.
"I am a dangerous man," he said while talking to reporters after a meeting with Jamiat-e-Uleema-e-Islam (Fazal group) Chief Fazlur Rehman. The chief minister, who was meeting Fazal after the recent media reports alleging that JUI-F and the Pakistan Muslim League-Q were jointly planning to form their government in Balochistan, said he did not feel threatened.