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Local administration of Chaman has continued its efforts to clear the Quetta-Chaman highway for traffic as heavy snowfall had blocked the road on Kozak top area of Chaman disrupting all kinds of traffic on the international highway.

Assistant Commissioner, Chaman, Qilla Abdullah district, Ahmed Ali Siddiqui told that rescue work was in progress and steps were being taken on the war-footings to ensure smooth flow of traffic on the highway. He further said that people who had been trapped on the Kozhak top area following the continuous snowfall had been rescued.

A senior official of the International Committee of the Red Cross was kidnapped from the Chaman Housing Scheme here on Thursday.

“Yes, one of our health officials, Dr Khalil Diale, has been kidnapped by armed men at around 1.35pm,” said an official at the ICRC’s Quetta office.

Dr Diale was a British citizen and had been working in sub-delegation Quetta since February last year, he added.

The Quetta Electric Supply Company (QESCO) Labour Union staged a demonstration here on Wednesday to protest target killings and kidnappings in Balochistan.
The protesters chanted slogans against the government and law enforcement agencies for their failure to maintain law and order in the province. More >

A bullet-riddled body was found near Sorap Dam area of Panjgur district, some 700 kilometres from Quetta on Tuesday. According to the Balochistan Levies, some passers-by spotted the body and informed them. They shifted the body to the District Headquarters Hospital Panjgur for an autopsy. The victim was identified as Munir Ahmed, and had been missing for the last six days. “The body had bullet wounds,” sources said. The family members said that they had no enmity with anyone. Another mutilated body was found dumped in a gunny bag on Monday and had been identified as that of Muhammad Azeem Sasoli, a resident of Surab area of Kalat district. Sasoli had been missing for the last one year. Both the bodies were handed over to their relatives for burial after the legal formalities.

Quetta police have arrested gangs including policemen involved in car and bike lifting and other heinous crimes in the provincial capital.

DIG Operation Quetta Nazeer Ahmed Kurd while addressing a news conference at DIG Operation Office here on Wednesday said: “A gang including policemen snatched a car from a citizen on gunpoint but was arrested on police picket while driving away the snatched vehicle to their den.”

Five people including three children and a couple, died due to suffocation in two separate incidents in Quetta and Kuchlak some 30 kilometres away from Quetta on Sunday night. According to official sources, a couple identified as Salman and his wife Gul Khanam died of asphyxia in their house in Quetta. They had forgotten to switch off the gas heater and died due to gas suffocation.

Three children of Killi Khano area of Khuchlak, were also killed due to gas suffocation on Sunday night. The children were identified as 12-year-old Umer, his sisters

Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a British employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) near the Chaman Housing Scheme in Quetta on Thursday.

Police Operations Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Nazir Kurd said that Dr Khalil Ahmed Dale, a Yemen-born British national, was on his way to the office when a group of armed men intercepted his vehicle and detained him at gunpoint.

The peaks of mountains surrounding the metropolis received light snowfall at night between Tuesday and Wednesday. More >

At least 15 people were killed and over 20 wounded after a blast hit Pakistan’s Quetta city Friday, said police sources and media reports. The toll in the blast has risen to 15, Xinhua reported Dawn News citing sources early Saturday.

Earlier, district inspector general Nazir Kurd of Quetta, capital city of Balochistan province, said 10 people were killed and about 30 injured in the blast which, as per initial information, looked as if it was a car bomb blast.

Dr Baqar Shah, the police surgeon in Balochistan, was shot dead by two unidentified armed men on Sabzal Road on Thursday afternoon when he was returning home from the Bolan Medical College Teaching Hospital.

Dr Baqar Shah was the starred witness of the Kharotabad incident where five Chechens and Russians were killed by the police and Frontier Corps on May 17.