The Pakistan security establishment has issued an urgent directive recalling retired army personnel for re-enlistment to combat severe manpower shortages caused by heavy casualties and desertions in the conflict-ridden regions of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). The Inspector General of Frontier Corps, Balochistan (North), in an official communication, has asked the retired soldiers to immediately.
Four miners were killed and five injured after gas accumulated inside a coal mine in Harnai district of Pakistan's Balochistan province, triggering an explosion.
A constable was killed, and another was seriously injured after unidentified assailants targeted a checkpost in Kank area of Mastung district of Pakistan's Balochistan province, local media reported on Friday.
A full-blown confrontation is on the cards in Balochistan. With the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) stepping up attacks in the region, Pakistani establishment finds itself on the backfoot.
The BLA has claimed that 52 Pakistani security personnel were killed in 28 operations across Balochistan between September 1 and 7, along with attacks on military facilities and convoys.
Pakistan’s deteriorating water scarcity has often been attributed to climate change, an increase in population or shrinking glaciers, but the crisis has also occurred due to political choices, failure of institutions, and the gradual privatisation of a resource that should be accessible to each individual. Per capita water availability in Pakistan has reduced from more.
As many as two people were killed and 42 others injured after a bus carrying a wedding party overturned on the Kohlu-Dera Ghazi Khan highway in Pakistan's Balochistan province, local media reported on Friday.
Pakistan’s internal political and security situation has continued to deteriorate even as the country’s politicosecurity elites seek to project themselves as peacemakers in the ongoing Middle East crisis. With no signs of meaningful growth and development in the domestic economy, the country’s two provinces — Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, along with Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Two civilians were killed and two others injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated on a civilian logistics vehicle in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, police sources said on Monday.
The Partition of Bharat in 1947 was one of the greatest human tragedies of modern times. Millions were killed, displaced and separated from their homes and families, while countless others were subjected to looting, abduction, forced conversion and unspeakable violence. Some of the most gruesome episodes took place in the Western region (now Pakistan), particularly.
Indian intelligence agencies have warned of a possible major provocation by Pakistan aimed at diverting attention from the mounting internal challenges confronting Islamabad. With protests in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) continuing and unrest in Balochistan intensifying, Islamabad is reportedly weighing a major operation against India as a diversionary tactic to shift focus away from its domestic.
