Quetta News

The Public meeting of PTI Chairman Imran Khan scheduled for March 23 in Quetta has been postponed, the party said Monday.

PTI sources said Imran Khan had not taken leaders of the nationalists parties into confidence so far. Imran Khan had already given indications that a workable and practicable proposals for resolving the problems facing people of Balochistan would be presented in his public meeting.

Residence of a senior official of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) was bombed here on Friday; however, no fatalities were reported. Meantime, a girls school was blown up by the terrorists in Dera Ismail Khan.

The FIA Director Akbar Baloch’s house was attacked overnight with a hand grenade. The powerful blast sound was heard far and wide. The outer wall of the residence and vehicles parked inside were partially damaged.

At least 15 personnel of the Frontier Corps (FC) were killed and 12 others were injured when Baloch militants attacked four FC checkposts near Margat coalmines.

The banned Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the attack and termed the deadly attack a reaction to the killings of grand daughter and great-grand daughter of Nawab Akbar Bugti.

Unidentified gunmen have killed 14 paramilitary soldiers in Balochistan province in attack on their check post, official sources said Wednesday. The Frontier Corps (FC) sources told reporters in Quetta, that 15 other soldiers were injured in the Tuesday’s night attack in Sibi district.

They said when the soldiers did not return to their barrack from a check post in Marawar area, some 40 kilometers from Quetta, in the evening, other soldiers went to the post. Tey found bodies and injured lying in the check post, the FC sources said.

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President PML-Q Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said the Islamabad’s weather is getting cold now and needs to be warmed up, our sources reported. Flanked by PML-Q General Secretary Mushahid Hussain Syed, he was talking to the reporters at Quetta airport.

Shujaat said his party is not responsible for the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti. ‘He has always expressed confoedence in my party and Mushahid Hussain.’

Governor Balochistan Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi once again called upon the members of Balochistan assembly to extend their financial support to the public sector universities undergoing financial crunch in Balochistan.

In a statement issued here on Friday, he reiterated that universities in Balochistan were facing financial constraints. Members of Balochistan Assembly should come forward and from their MPA fund help these varsities for the better future of the province, he added.

Balochistan lawyers on Thursday boycotted court proceedings across the province to protest the killing of three layers in Karachi, the other day.

Though the courts are vacationing but the lawyers boycotted the proceedings of courts, which hear the matters of important and urgent matters. Similarly, reports reaching here from other parts from the province also suggested that the lawyers boycotted court proceedings.

Three people, including an FIA inspector, were killed in an ambush by unidentified assailants on the Mecongy Road in the provincial capital, on Tuesday night.

FIA inspector Wilayat Hussain along with his two friends was on his way to Nichari Road. When his vehicle reached the Mecongy Road, some 200 metres from the site, some unidentified armed men sprayed bullets with lethal automatic weapons on it.

Three people died of suffocation in Killi Baro area of Saryab Road in the provincial capital on Tuesday. According to official sources, the three dead have been identified as Mumtaz Ali, Kamal Khan and Bilawal, all residents of Killi Baro on Saryab Road. The sources said the men had switched on their heater at night but forgotten to turn it off before sleeping. Resultantly, gas filled the room and suffocated the men, who died of asphyxia. Their bodies were taken to the civil hospital for autopsy, and later handed over to relatives.