Tag Archives: Balochistan

Polls are under way on 21 national and provincial seats as cellular services were temporarily suspended in “specific districts” of Punjab and Balochistan to “safeguard” the electoral process. According to a statement issued by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Saturday, “cellular services will be temporarily suspended in specific districts of Punjab and Balochistan during the by-elections” on April 21 …

LAHORE / QUETTA / PESHAWAR: Lightning strikes and rain-related incidents left 24 people dead and injured several others in Punjab, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as downpour continued to lash the three provinces for a second day on Saturday. Heavy rains damaged highways, roads and houses, disrupting traffic and forcing people to move to safe places. In Punjab, 17 people, including children, died …

DERA ISMAIL KHAN / LAKKI MARWAT: Six security personnel, including a DSP, were martyred and 12 militants killed in separate incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan on Friday night and Saturday. In one incident, eight militants were killed in a gun battle with security forces during an intelligence-based operation conducted in the Kot Sultan area of Kulachi tehsil, Dera Ismail …

ISLAMABAD: During the first quarter of 2024, Pakistan witnessed 432 violence-linked fatalities and 370 injuries among civilians, security personnel, and outlaws, resulting from as many as 245 incidents of terror att­acks and counter-terror operations. This includes 281 fatalities among civilians and security forces personnel. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan provinces, both bordering Afghanistan, accounted for over 92 per cent of …

SAHIWAL: While calling PTI Chai­rman Imran Khan’s return to power “out of question”, JUI-F emir Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Sunday raised questions over holding elections in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtun­khwa at a time when they remain grip­­ped by intense winter. “It is out of the question that Imran, who is a product of a fake and bogus election, will return …

KARACHI: As heavy rains have triggered floods and wreaked havoc across the country, charity organisations and welfare bodies also pumped up their relief activities for hundreds of thousands of flood victims arriving at Karachi to seek shelter, but what emerges as the main challenge for the welfare bodies is to execute and take this huge gigantic operation to the disaster-hit areas …

KARACHI: In what appeared to be among the most disastrous monsoon spells in six decades, Sindh and Balochistan are witnessing the heaviest rainfall since 1961, as the two provinces recorded 522 and 469 per cent, more than the normal downpour this year, respectively. The fresh numbers came from the Met Office, which surprised officials and attracted warnings from environmentalists, who …

Karachi and other areas of Sindh witnessed heavy rainfall coupled with strong winds and thunderstorms on Saturday increasing fears of urban flooding as the monsoon system across the country has intensified. According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), heavy showers lashed DHA, Clifton, II Chundrigar Road, Ibrahim Hyderi, Korangi, Saddar, Sharae Faisal, Malir, and Stargate after 10am today. The monsoon …

ISLAMABAD: The members of the National Assembly from Balochistan and erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) on Tuesday again raised voices over the ongoing security operations in their respective areas as Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf allowed the lawmakers to deliver lengthy speeches on points of order after setting aside a 205-point lengthy private member’s day agenda. Most members in their …

• Alyani owns Rs728.41m assets including foreign properties • Buzdar owns properties in Multan, Taunsa Sharif and DG Khan • Punjab food minister’s family keeps assets in UK, UAE ISLAMABAD: Key leaders of Balochistan, including its incumbent and former chief ministers, are not only multi-millionaires but also own foreign properties, it emerged on Wednesday. Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan …