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BALUCHISTAN NEWS

Double landmine blast kills one person and wounds at least 18 in Pakistan’s southwest

May 02, 2024 8:21 pm

The first landmine exploded when a truck was passing through a valley in coal-rich Duki district, Baluchistan province.

Security increased for Chinese nationals in Pakistan after failed terror attack

August 16, 2023 1:41 pm

Balochistan, bordering Iran and Afghanistan, is home to a long-running violent insurgency. Baloch insurgent groups have carried out several attacks targeting the CPEC projects in the region in recent times. 

Grenade attack at bus station in Pakistan kills 1, wounds 2

February 09, 2022 1:19 pm

Police say assailants have thrown a hand grenade at a bus station in volatile southwest Pakistan killing a passerby and wounding two others.

Pakistani troops kill 3 militants in raid in southwest

February 06, 2022 4:18 pm

The twin attacks in the districts of Naushki and Panjgur in Baluchistan also left 13 militants dead, according to the military.

US declares Pakistan's separatist Baluchistan Liberation Army as terrorist group

July 03, 2019 10:52 am

Baluchistan has been the scene of a low-level insurgency by separatists demanding more autonomy and a greater share in the region's natural resources.

Death toll in Pakistan election rally bombing rises to 149

July 16, 2018 6:00 pm

Many of the wounded remain in critical condition at hospitals in Mastung, the provincial capital of Quetta and in the southern city of Karachi. Officials expect the death toll to rise.

Chief Minister of Pakistan's volatile Baluchistan region resigns

January 09, 2018 9:08 pm

Nawab Sanaullah Zehri had vowed to fight his political opponents to the end, but resigned to 'bring an end to instability' in the province, which borders both Afghanistan and Iran

'State-sponsored mass killings, abuses, disappearances common in Pak’s Baluchistan'

June 09, 2016 2:43 pm

Executive Director of Baluchistan House, Tarek Fatah, says that Pakistan has been involved in systematic human rights abuses using its military and intelligence agency

Pakistan floods: 12 more dead in Baluchistan, Gilgit Baltistan area

July 24, 2015 1:37 pm

Friday's statement by the NDMA says 194,137 people in the district of Layyah and other regions in the eastern Punjab province have been affected.

Pak quake claims at least 350 lives

September 26, 2013 12:06 am

Pakistan's army airlifted hundreds of soldiers to help with the aftermath.

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