Quetta, Pakistan News

The suicide blast at a funeral in Shergarh, Mardan on Tuesday killed an independent MPA and 34 others, injuring dozens more.

For Rajab Ali and his wife Fatima, the quiet country streets of Renmark are a far cry from life in Pakistan.

Pakistani paramilitary soldiers take positions after militants attacked a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, on Saturday, June 15. Several militants held hundreds of people hostage inside the Bolan medical complex.

The Ziarat Residency attack is perhaps a watershed event in the Baloch nationalist-Pakistan relations but it is not exactly a 9/11 equivalent as claimed by some Two attacks ravaged Balochistan last week.

Two recent incidents in Baluchistan rocked Pakistan. The first; bomb explosion at the residency of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Ziarat that destroyed the historical monument.

The burning down of the Ziarat Residency is an attack on the core of the sentiments of Pakistani nationhood.

Staff Report LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan is sending a high level fact-finding mission to Balochistan in the wake of terrorist attacks in Quetta and Ziarat.

Govt to reject tariff raise condition for fresh IMF loan * Islamabad to get $3bn to $5bn fresh loan if two sides agree on terms Staff Report ISLAMABAD: The government has decided not to accept the condition of quarterly increases in power and gas tariffs to qualify for a fresh International Monetary Fund loan programme during the six-day...

A rescue worker and security official collect evidence from burnt bus at the site of a bomb blast in Quetta June 15, 2013.

By Safiullah While education for the poor and middle class is already in a deplorable condition in Pakistan, the few schools that have been running under government patronage have disgraceful tales of mistreatment of children to offer.

Interior Minister Ch Nisar Ali Khan said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would be inviting the political leadership across the spectrum to help formulate a national agenda to restore peace in the country.

Pakistani forces stormed a hospital that had been taken over by gunmen Saturday in a restive southwestern province, freeing hostages and ending a five-hour standoff that capped a series of attacks that killed 22 people.

Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani advocate for girls' rights to education, condemned the bombing of a school bus in Islamabad.

Fourteen female students were killed when a bus bomb exploded in Pakistan Saturday-just eight months after Malala Yousafzai nearly died in a similar incident.

ISLAMABAD: France utterly condemns the particularly heinous attacks of the June 15 in Quetta that targeted a hospital and the women's university, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Monday.

London: Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban for promoting girls' education, has denounced an attack on a bus carrying female students in Quetta as "cowardly".

A series of bombs planted by militant nationalists in southwestern Pakistan have destroyed the 19th-century residence of the country's founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah .

Holland: June 17, 2013. Parvez Iqbal, President, Pakistan Christian Congress Holland Chapter in his messages to the families of Bus victims of Women University in Quetta, Nurses in Bolan Medical Complex, Security personnel of Frontier Corps, Baluchistan and Deputy Commissioner, Quetta expressed his deepest condolences on irreparable and unexpected ... (more)

A rescue worker and security official collect evidence from a burned bus at the site of a bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, June 15, 2013.

QUETTA: Weeping relatives gathered on Sunday to identify the charred remains of loved ones killed in a double attack claimed by a banned militant group.