Suicide attack on Shia rally kills 60 in Quetta
At least 60 people have been killed while more than 160 including media men got injured as a suicide bomber hit a rally being taken out in respect of Al-Quds Day in Quetta, report said on Friday. The suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest when the rally organised by Shia…
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Categories: The News Tags: Quetta, Sui, Suicide Attack
Explosion at Al-Quds day rally in Quetta; many injured
An explosion hit a public rally at Meezan Chowk in Quetta, report said Friday. Several persons reportedly injured in the rally on Al-Quds Day in Quetta. The sounds of firing were also heard after the blast. The injured being transferred to civil hospital Quetta.
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Balochistan suffers Rs1tr losses, gets Rs50m from Centre
QUETTA (APP) – A high-level meeting presided over by the Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Aslam Raisani and attended by senior military and civil officials estimated that worst ever floods had caused over Rs 1 trillion losses to the province.
The meeting was told that flood torrents had washed away…
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Flood tide devastates Sibi
QUETTA – Floodwater coming from Nari bank has played havoc in Tambu tehsil of Naseerabad on Thursday destroying dozens of mud houses, agriculture fields and farms while five people including three children died of gastroenteritis in Dera Murad Jamali. Meanwhile, flash flood in Talli River on Thursday submerged Sultanpur and…
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Balochistan shut to observe Bugti’s 4th death anniversary
Black Day is being observed in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan on the fourth death anniversary of Nawab Akbar Bugti on Thursday. According to media reports, a shutter-down strike is being observed on the call by the Baloch Republican Party and Jamhoori Watan Party. Balochistan National Front, Balochistan National…
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Balochistan shut to observe Bugti’s 4th death anniversary
Black Day is being observed in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan on the fourth death anniversary of Nawab Akbar Bugti on Thursday. According to media reports, a shutter-down strike is being observed on the call by the Baloch Republican Party and Jamhoori Watan Party. Balochistan National Front, Balochistan National…
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Gunmen shoot dead PPP-S Balochistan chief
QUETTA (Agencies) – Gunmen on a motorbike shot dead PPP-Sherpao Balochistan President in Soorab on Wednesday.
“Ghulam Mustafa Khursani, provincial chief of Pakistan Peoples Party (Sherpao) was killed by unknown gunmen in his native town of Soorab, some 230 kilometres south of Quetta,” senior police official Kahlid Baqi told AFP.<br…
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New torrent hits Gandakha
JAFFARABAD/QUETTA (Agencies) – A new wave of deluge inundated the already devastated Tehsil Gandakha of District Jaffarabad in Balochistan on Monday.
Rescue operation was going on in Gandakha to bring people to safer patches while they were also being shifted to Jhal Magsi and other areas.
On the other hand,…
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Water level rises in Jaffarabad
QUETTA – The situation of flood affectees in Jaffarabad is getting worse with each passing day as water level is increasing in Dera Allahyar while gastro epidemic has claimed two more lives and affected hundreds of other people.
Sources said that several villages of Gandakha have been inundated due to…
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Flash floods caused over 10 bln loss to PEPCO
Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) has suffered a loss of over Rs 10 billion to its installations so far across the country due devastated floods. Sources told this agency here that four of the total nine power distribution companies including Peshawar Electric Company (PESCO) Multan Electric Supply Company (MEPCO), Quetta…
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Major human crisis looms in Balochistan
QUETTA – The situation is heading fast towards a big human crisis where hundreds of thousands of flood affectees are living under the open sky from Dera Allayar, the bordering town of Balochistan with Sindh in sweltering heat without having proper relief.
It is worth mentioning here that 13 districts…
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Fresh flood submerges Jaffarabad
QUETTA (APP) – After a wide breach in Tori embankment along the River Indus and breaches at three points in Begari Canal caused entrance of fresh flood of 80,000 cusecs into District Jaffarabad, with water rising up to 10 to 12 feet.
Meanwhile, the Agriculture Department Thursday said standing rice…
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Fresh flood submerges Jaffarabad
QUETTA (APP) – After a wide breach in Tori embankment along the River Indus and breaches at three points in Begari Canal caused entrance of fresh flood of 80,000 cusecs into District Jaffarabad, with water rising up to 10 to 12 feet.
Meanwhile, the Agriculture Department Thursday said standing rice…
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4,000 villages flooded; 0.5m people uprooted
QUETTA – After sweeping away over 4,000 villages, the devastating floods in Naseerabad and Jaffarabad districts have rendered more than 0.5 million people homeless. Over 14 people, including women and children, have been died so far in flood-related incidents in Nasirabad during the last couple of days.
Thousands of people…
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Categories: The News Tags: Flood, Naseerabad, Quetta, Women
Afghan police seize explosives at Pak border
KANDAHAR (AFP) – Afghan police said Sunday they had seized 17 tonnes of explosives hidden in paint and pickle tins at a customs office on the southern border with Pakistan.
The explosives had been trucked from Quetta to Afghanistan’s Spin Boldak and were brought to the official customs point for…
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10 killed in firing incident near Quetta
Ten people were killed in a firing incident on a minibus in the Mach area of Balochistan. The victims were from Lahore, Gujrat and Sargodha. They were on their way from Lahore to Quetta, when they were stopped and ordered out of their minibus. At this point, the gunmen opened…
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Development funds will be diverted to flood relief: Gilani
QUETTA – Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has assured that federal government would not leave the people of Balochistan in the lurch and would utilise all available resources for the relief and rehabilitation of flood affectees as it was the prime responsibility of the government.
“International community should help…
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Categories: The News Tags: Flood, Quetta, Sibi, Yousuf Raza Gilani