Pakistan reported three new cases of polio in the country's Balochistan, Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, bringing the total number of the disease-infected children to 21 since the beginning of this year, the health ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
Eight security personnel were injured when a bomb went off in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province, police officials said on Friday.
Pakistan's military said on Friday that it had killed five 'terrorists' and injured three others in three different operations in the country's southwest Balochistan province.
More than 70 people have been killed in multiple cases of terror attacks in the Balochistan province in southwestern Pakistan, media reported, quoting military and police officials.
Mahrang Baloch said that the state machinery is scared of the upcoming Baloch national gathering and is trying to spread fear among people.
The former college professor and her husband, an independent filmmaker and human rights activist, were brutally tortured by the Pakistan government and the country's intelligence agencies.
Innocent Balochs are being killed in fake encounters and their mutilated bodies are found in remote places, according to several reports.
The response, attributed to Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, also mentioned the measures being taken by the government to mitigate this trend, reports Dawn news.
But with little to show in terms of results, Baluchi insurgency is now turning towards the familiar route of religious sanctification, which oddly enough, overrides ethnic-tribal fixations, and is gaining traction. The man on the centerstage of ensuing Baluch protests is the local Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) leader, Maulana Hidayatur Rehman, leading the Gwadar Ko Huqooq Do Tehreek (Give Rights to Gwadar Movement)
Rather than listening to the pressing demands of Gwadar’s people, the government has come up with a ridiculous and unconstitutional order to suppress the voice of the most marginalised segments. The ongoing protest comprises genuine basic demands which the government can fulfil if it cares enough about the population.
