Baluchistan, Pakistan News

A bomb planted in a rickshaw tore through a truck used by security forces in southwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 13 people, police said.

Awais Ahmed, the district police officer for the town of Sibi, said four gunmen on two motorcycles opened fire at a brothel in the town.

A car bomb targeting a police vehicle killed 11 policemen and one civilian Thursday in an area of southwest Pakistan wracked by a separatist insurgency and Islamic militancy, police said.

A roadside bomb struck a paramilitary truck in Pakistan's troubled south-western province of Balochistan on Thursday, killing at least 11 people, police said, dpa reported.

A roadside bomb killed 11 security personnel and two civilians on Thursday in southwestern Pakistan where separatist rebels have for decades been battling to control the region's natural gas and other resources.

He says a remote-controlled bomb in a car parked along a road targeted a vehicle carrying members of the police's special forces.

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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.