Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) leader and senior minister Maulana Abdul Wasay has severely criticised Interior Minister Rehman Malik over his statement about the demolition of unregistered seminaries and has dubbed him a ‘dubious character’. Maulana Wasay expressed his outrage against the interior minister during a speech in the Balochistan Assembly over the recent statement of Rehman Malik in which he said that all unregistered religious seminaries would be demolished.

So, the “PTI revolution” is heading toward Balochistan. What is the pitch in Quetta going to look like on March 23? At this point, one hears mixed opinions. More >

The residents of Saryab Road staged a protest demonstration in the provincial capital on Wednesday against low gas pressure.

The protesters of Killi Kamalo and Burma Hotel burnt used tyres and blocked the main Saryab Road to register their protest. A large number of vehicles were stuck up in the long queue on both sides of the road, disrupting vehicular traffic for several hours. The protesters chanted full throat slogans against the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC), blocked the adjacent Qambarni Road and pelted the vehicles with stones.

Quetta thrashed Sialkot by 83 runs in the PCB-Pepsi Cricket Stars U-16 One-day Tournament 2011 here at the Lahore City Cricket Association ground on Monday.

Batting first Quetta slammed 213 all out in 44 overs. Ghulam Haider played a superb knock of 73 runs including 10 fours while Jamal Khan (54) with seven boundaries, and Mir Saeed Ullah (28) also batted well.

Irfan Elahi was the pick of the bowlers from Sialkot who chipped in with 4/49 while Waqas Ilyas got 3/42.

Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Aslam Raisani has demanded of the federal government (FG) to take up with Iran government the issue of firing retorted by Iranian forces on a fishing boat in which a number of Pakistan fishermen lost their lives. According to a handout issued here on Wednesday night, in a meeting with Secretary Defense Lt-Gen. (retd) Naeem Khalid Lodhi, he regretted that a number of Pakistan fishermen died in firing opened by Iranian maritime agency near Gwadar. He demanded to take effective measures to halt such incidents in future.

Three people, including a religious scholar’s son, were killed and two bodies were found in separate incidents on Thursday.

According to the police, unidentified armed men gunned down a man in a PCO shop in Sariab Road area of Quetta city on Thursday. The body was shifted to the civil hospital where it was identified as of religious scholar Moulvi Abdul Aziz’s son Abdul Hameed. Separately, a man was gunned down in Alamdar Road area of the provincial capital on Thursday. The body was shifted to the civil hospital for an autopsy where it was identified as of Yasir Arafat Hazara.

Two Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were killed and five others sustained injuries in a landmine blast in the Mand area of the Kech District near the Pak-Iran border, some 900 kilometres from the provincial capital, on Wednesday, Balochistan Levies said. More >

At least four people were killed and a woman sustained injuries in two separate firing incidents in the provincial capital and Kalat district on Wednesday. According to the police, two persons were killed and a woman sustained injuries in the Killi Kamalo area of Quetta on Wednesday morning.

A local Hindu trader, abducted three months ago, found dead near the Western Bypass near Quetta, Police said on TUesday.

Ravi Kumar, a local trader from Quetta had been abducted by armed men in broad day light some three months ago from satellite town. His captors had demanded Rs20 million from the family in ransom. After negotiations the kidnappers agreed to let him go for Rs10million in ransom.

Speakers viewed that one of the major causes of terrorism was bad culture of corruption adding that society itself was responsible for promoting corruption.

This was said in a seminar “Together Fight against Corruption” organized by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Balochistan here on Friday.

Renowned human rights leader Ansar Burni said that corruption had encouraged terrorist forces to meet their nefarious designs easily adding that corruption had become one of the major causes of terrorism in our country.