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Resident killed under Pakistan Army custody, claims Baloch activist
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Balochistan [Pakistan], March 19 (ANI): A prominent Baloch activist who runs a campaign against missing persons in Balochistan has claimed that a resident of Awaran district has been killed under Pakistan Army custody.
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Pakistan's Balochistan remains backward, impoverished: Think tank
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Balochistan [Pakistan], March 18 (ANI): Pakistan's Balochistan remains impoverished and has become the weakest point for the country as Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan is giving China too much freedom to operate on its soil which will only harm the province, according to a think tank.
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Baloch activists seek UN intervention to stop human rights violations in B
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 17 (ANI): The Baloch political and human rights activists have demanded immediate intervention by the United Nations to stop gross human rights violations in the Balochistan province of Pakistan.
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Pakistan: CPEC instigates insurgency in Balochistan
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Quetta [Pakistan], March 17 (ANI): The acquisition of Gwadar port, exclusion of Baloch firms and labour from Gwadar in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project has heightened pre-existing feelings of marginalisation in Balochistan, with Baloch nationalist forces either wholly reje
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Pakistan denied relief by US court in Reko Diq case
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 17 (ANI): A US court has dismissed Pakistan's motion to stay enforcement of USD 6 billion penalty imposed against the country in the Reko Diq case by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in July 2019, according to a media report.
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Afghan leaders support Pashtun ethnic jirga in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkh
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], March 17 (ANI): Former Afghan Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar and former Vice President Amrullah Saleh on Wednesday supported the proposal by the Pashtun ethnic jirga in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to hold a Loya Jirga in Balochistan.
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Pakistan Police resort to teargas, baton-charge to stop government employe
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Quetta [Pakistan], March 16 (ANI): Balochistan Employees and Workers Grand Alliance who attempted to stage a sit-in in Quetta's Red Zone protesting against Pakistan government policies were teargassed and baton-charged by police.
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Baloch National movement to hold protest in UK, South Korea against Pak at
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Balochistan [Pakistan], March 16 (ANI): The Baloch National Movement (BNM), a Pakistani political party, is going to organize a series of protests in major cities of the UK and South Korea to make the international community aware of Pakistani "atrocities" in Balochistan.
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Pakistan: IED blast in Sibi kills four soldiers, 10 injured
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Balochistan [Pakistan], March 16 (ANI): Four Pakistani soldiers were killed and 10 more were critically injured in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attack in the Sibi district of Balochistan, local media reported.
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Pakistan: Imran Khan govt allies to announce decision whether to stay or r
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 14 (ANI): Three major allies of Pakistan's ruling Imran Khan government, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) will announce their decision on resigning or staying in the federal cabinet o
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Two injured in landmine explosion in Pakistan's Balochistan
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Balochistan [Pakistan], March 14 (ANI): Two people were injured in a landmine explosion in Balochistan's Sibi district on Sunday, local media reported.
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Students continue to protest in Islamabad over enforced disappearances in
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 14 (ANI): Students are holding protests in front of the Press Club in the capital city of Pakistan, seeking the release of fellow student Hafeez Baloch, who was forcibly disappeared by Pakistani intelligence agencies.
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