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Sajid Hussain

Ali Haider: the trolley boy gets to join his missing father

The once-famous 11-year-old boy carrying a single-wheel trolley during the historic Long March to find his missing father is now a 16-year-old young man – an age which makes him almost eligible to go missing himself. And he did. On Sunday. Ali Haider –the remarkably poised boy usually wearing an intense look and a flat ...

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Aslam Baloch among six top BLA leaders killed in Kandhar suicide attack

A suicide bomber hit Baloch militant leaders in a residential area in Kandahar’s Aino Mina area on Tuesday, killing Aslam Baloch and five other top Baloch militant leaders and wounding three others. Aslam Baloch was a top commander of the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) who initiated a recent campaign of suicide attacks against Chinese nationals ...

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Pashteen blocked from visiting families of Baloch missing persons

Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) leader Manzoor Pashteen was blocked by security officials on Monday when he reached the Quetta airport to visit the protest camp of families of Baloch missing persons. FIA officials stopped the PTM leader at the airport and forced him to return on the next flight. Pashteen had arrived in the city ...

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Mass grave containing four bodies found in Balochistan

A mass grave was found in Balochistan’s Panjgur district on 17 July, 2018, containing four bodies decomposed beyond recognition. Relatives of missing persons, a term used for victims of enforced disappearances in Balochistan, flocked to the site of the mass grave fearing the bodies might belong to their loved ones. However, there was no way ...

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Baloch flock to Stockholm to celebrate culture

Dozens of Baloch from across Sweden flocked to Stockholm on Saturday to celebrate the Baloch culture with dance performances, singing, exhibition of traditional artefacts, and children tableaus. The event, initially planned to be held on March 2 to correspond with the Baloch Culture Day, is the first of its kind in Europe. “It’s going to ...

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Quddus Bizenjo to launch new party today

Chief Minister Balochistan Quddus Bizenjo has said that he will announce the formation of a new political party in a press conference today (Thursday). Geo News reported that 32 other members of the Balochistan Assembly will be part of the new party. Bizenjo, who secured only 544 votes in a constituency of 57,666 voters in ...

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Brahumdagh takes major shift from Baloch nationalist narrative

President of the Baloch Republican Party Brahumdagh Bugti on Tuesday took a major shift from the mainstream Baloch nationalist narrative by denying that Pakistan occupied Balochistan on March 27, 1948. Brahumdagh has been on the forefront of the ongoing Baloch separatist movement that seeks its justification from the alleged March 27 occupation. “On March 27th ...

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Balochistan Times launches short story contest for children

Balochistan Times invites Baloch children from all over the world to take part in its annual BT Short Story Contest for Children 2018. The winner will be awarded 50,000 PKR along with a certificate. The stories should be written in either Balochi or English. Rules of the contest 1. The writers should not be above ...

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JI leader says Malik, Hasil, Sarfaraz with them in Punjab students’ dispute

A leader of the Jamat Islami (JI) has said that they enjoyed the support and confidence of Dr Malik, Hasil Bizenjo and Sarfaraz Bugti in the dispute between Baloch students and the JI’s student wing in the Punjab University. JI’s Abdul Mateen Akhwanzada expressed these views in a letter addressed to two senior Baloch journalists ...

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Lashkari Raisani joins BNP-M

In a surprise twist of political power game ahead of general elections, Nawabzada Lashkari Raisani joined the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) on Sunday. Lashkari Raisani is the younger brother of former chief minister Balochistan Aslam Raisani. He has also served as the the former Balochistan chief of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). In 2013, he ...