Pakistan Railways General Manager (operation) Saeed Akhtar, after holding the charge has announced to restore the Quetta Express.

The train between Quetta and Peshawar was closed a few days ago due to the shortages of locomotives.

A strike was observed in parts of Balochistan on Tuesday against accession of the province to Pakistan on March 27, 1948. The strike that had been called by the Baloch National Front (BNF) completely paralysed business and trade activities in parts of the province.

The flow of traffic on National and RCD highways was affected. Passenger buses could not leave for Sindh and Punjab from Quetta and traffic in interior Balochistan also came to a halt. Baloch nationalist parties and the Baloch Students Organisation (BSO) backed the strike.

Two Hazara youth were killed when unidentified men on Sabzal Road opened fire on them on Monday. The deceased, identified as Ejaz Hussain and Ali Asghar were shot dead by two unidentified men on a motorcycle.

The assailants fled the scene soon after. Ages of the deceased could not be ascertained. The bodies were shifted to Bolan Medical Centre. A local police official hinted that it might be a sectarian attack, however he refrained from giving any confirmation as the investigations are underway.

Gunmen ambushed a Pakistani paramilitary checkpost on Friday, killing four soldiers and abducting four others in Balochistan, officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but officials blamed the attack on Taliban in Shirani district, 350 kilometres east of Quetta, the capital of the province that borders Afghanistan and Iran.

“Militants attacked the post in the early hours. They first surrounded the post, then ambushed it. After killing four, they took four other soldiers with them,” said a senior government official in Baluchistan.

Unidentified armed men gunned down two police personnel in the provincial capital’s Jinnah Town area on Wednesday.

According to police, the two victims, constable Nematullah and Liaqat, were on duty at a picket line at Jinnah Town’s Smungli Road when armed assailants riding a motorbike opened fire on them and fled from the scene.

Two police personnel were shot dead by unknown assailants in the Jinnah Town area of Quetta on Tuesday.

The assailants, who were on a motorbike, targeted the two men when they were deputed at a police picket on Smugli Road. The attackers managed to escape the scene immediately after the incident. “Two personnel were killed on the spot,” Capital City Police Officer Quetta Ehsan Mehboob told The Express Tribune.

Unknown armed gunned down a man here at Qambarani road area of the provincial capital on Monday. According to police, the victim was on his way home when armed assailants riding a motorbike opened fire at him and fled from the scene.

As a result, he died on the spot. His body was sent to the Bolan Medical Complex (BMC) for postmortem where the victim was identified as Muhammad Hashim.

Unidentified attackers gunned down a man on the provincial capital’s Qambarani Road area on Monday.

According to police, the victim was on his way home when armed assailants riding a motorbike opened fire on him and then quickly fled from the scene.

An old man, father of the victim taxi driver who was killed by kidnappers, demanded of the government to ensure arrest of gang leaders of the criminals.

Addressing a news conference at the Quetta Press Club here on Friday, Haji Abdul Majeed Bungulzai said that few days back, a gang of criminals posing themselves passengers hired the taxi car of his son Khudaay Raheem Bungulzai and asked him to proceed to Dhadar area.

Unidentified armed men shot dead a shopkeeper in here on Tuesday. Police said that unknown gunmen opened fire at a shop in Killi Ferozabad on Sabzal road and killed one identified as Ghulam Gilani Hotak. The assailants managed to escape from the scene.

Police shifted the body to hospital for autopsy which later was handed over to the heirs.