Baluchistan, Pakistan News

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Shahbaz Sharif met Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party chief Mehmood Khan Achakzai here in Quetta on Sunday and discussed the overall situation of the province and country.

QUETTA In a major breakthrough for government making efforts in Balochistan, the Pakistan Muslim League , Pashtunkhwa Mili Awami Party and National Party announced formation of government in the province on Friday night.

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QUETTA: The party of Pakistan's incoming prime minister Nawaz Sharif is likely to form a coalition government with nationalists in the country's troubled southwest, officials said yesterday.

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan claimed credit for yesterday's suicide attack in Quetta that targeted the chief of police in the southern Pakistani city.

Nawaz promised Pakistan's 'full support' as the United States withdraws combat troops from Afghanistan next year and made overtures to nuclear rival India in a briefing with the foreign media at his family estate outside Lahore.

There have been worrying signs of breakdown in ethnic relations in Pakistan including accounts of ethnic Hazaras taking up arms and forming their own militia after bombings in Quetta, and Christian protesters clashing with police in Lahore in response to anti-Christian mob violence earlier this year.

ROUGH CUT STORY: The Inspector General of Police of Pakistan's restive Balochistan Province narrowly escaped a suicide attack on Sunday that killed at least six people and wounded 46 others, officials said.

A reporter's wild journey in the back of a Pakistani truck, from Karachi to Kabul through the treacherous Afghanistan-Pakistan borderlands .

A car bomb killed at least six people and wounded over 50 others after exploding outside a police chief's house in Pakistan.

Staff Report QUETTA: The Balochistan National Party-Mengal on Sunday renounced the results of the election on various polling stations and demanded the ECP either recounts the votes or conduct a new election.

Although the Election Commission of Pakistan has not announced results yet; however, the unofficial results suggest a clear victory for the nationalist parties in the province.

At least six people were killed and 45 got injured in a suicide car attack on Balochistan province 's police chief house in Pakistan's southwest city of Quetta on Sunday night, reported local media Dawn.

At least three people were killed and 40 injured when a blast occurred in the Quetta city of Pakistan's Balochistan province late Sunday, Geo news reported.

Early results make it almost certain that Sharif will become prime minister of the country for a third time after Pakistan's 'most deadly election' Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif declared victory in a jubilant speech to supporters as results from Saturday's election showed a clear lead for his party, as bombs and gunfire killed more than a 100 voters.

Pakistanis check damages at an election campaign office of Pakistan People's Party, PPP, destroyed by a bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, Friday, May 10, 2013.

At least six people, including two paramilitary soldiers, were shot dead on Saturday in election-related violence in Pakistan's troubled southwest during historic polls, an official said.

A policeman carries ballot boxes, polling booths and polling materials with an election worker before transporting them to polling stations - Reuters has begun voting in a momentous election where a civilian government will hand over power to another democratically elected administration for the first time ever in 66 years.

QUETTA: At least four labourers working deep in well died of suffocation in Mastung district of Balochistan, official sources said on Friday.