A group of police personnel guarding escorting polio vaccination team faced an armed attack in Killi Qambrani, a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Quetta on Saturday, Dawn reported.
As Balochistan continues to receive heavy rainfall and faces a flood-like situation, multiple roads, including a part of the Quetta-Sukkur N-65 Highway, remained blocked on Friday, according to Dawn.
At least five people, including four girls, died in flash floods in Quetta as the torrential rains lashed the various districts of Balochistan province in Pakistan, Dawn reported.
Ahead of Ashura, the Balochistan government suspended internet services and mobile phones on Wednesday in the provincial capital Quetta to maintain the law and order situation in the city, according to ARY News.
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday barred the authorities from arresting Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan until August 9 in a case related to the murder of a lawyer in Quetta, Pakistan-based The Express Tribune reported.
In its fact-finding report titled "Balochistan’s Struggle for Hope" launched in Quetta on Wednesday, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed deep concern about the mounting public frustration in Balochistan over enforced disappearances, economic exclusion, curbs on press
Amid a rise in cases of enforced disappearances in the country, the relatives of missing persons staged a protest demonstration in Pakistan, Voicepk.net reported.
The families of missing people continued to block the N-25 highway after which the traffic between Quetta and Karachi remained suspended for several hours on Monday.