Monthly Archives: May 2011
Iran offers electricity at 9 cents per unit
Iran has offered the export of more 35 MW of electricity to Pakistan, but at almost 9 cents per unit. However, Islamabad wants to purchase the electricity but in the range of 6-7 cents per unit, Pakistan Observer has learnt reliably.
3 more Punjabis killed in Balochistan
QUETTA – Four people including three Punjabi speaking labourers were shot dead in two separate incidents of firing in Panjgour and Quetta on Monday. Police sources said some unidentified armed men riding a motorbike sprayed a volley...
NP, BSO stage protest
QUETTA – The activists of National Party and Baloch Students Organisation-Pajjar and took out a rally on Sunday in Dalbandin town of the Chagai district to protest the atomic explosions carried out in the mountains of district on May 28,...
Abuses in mineral-rich Balochistan province
Like most Baloch people, Habibullah is deeply immersed in local culture and traditions
The deaths of at least 1,000 people since March 2008 in the ongoing nationalist insurgency in the volatile Pakistani province of Balochistan have often...
Osama Episode Reinvigorates China-Pakistan Ties
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali
Pakistan’s Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar announced on May 22 that China had “acceded to Pakistan’s request to take over operations” of the Gwadar port while Islamabad also requested Beijing to build...
Ma ajoye lotok
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nazina Balochistan a
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USA: Protest against nuclear blasts on Baloch soil by Pakistan in 1998
HOUSTON, MAY 2011: Sindhi’s and Baloch, who are Americans, on Friday protested in front of the Pakistan consul-general in Houston to condemn Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program, Islamabad’s support to terrorist outfits and...
Forced out of Quetta by ethnic violence
KARACHI: Aly Khan fled Quetta city, provincial capital of the southwestern province of Balochistan, after several of his family members were attacked in inter-ethnic violence perpetrated by extremist groups, and moved to Islamabad to start...
Balochistan CM asks doctors to end strike or take a hike
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani has asked the protesting doctors to resume their duties within 24 hours otherwise they would be dismissed.
The CM has taken this decision after keeping in view the suffering...
The birth of a new Sudan
By Sanaullah Baloch
Many colonially carved nation states around the world have faced, and are still going through, severe challenges of legitimacy. For example, Pakistan’s ill-conceived policies paved the way for Bangladesh in 1971.
Balochi Dance front of the Isalamic Iranian Embassy
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BRP Withdraws From BNF
QUETTA: Nawabzada Bramdagh Bugti’s Baloch Republican Party (BRP) has decided to withdraw from the pro-independence alliance of Baloch political parties called the Baloch National Front (BRP).
You are BSO I am BSO
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