Quetta, Pakistan News

Islamabad, May 23 : Twelve people were killed in Pakistan's Quetta city Thursday when a car packed with 100 kg explosives blew up just as a vehicle carrying security personnel was passing by.

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.

During an All-Parties Conference held at the MPAs hostel in Quetta on Thursday, the central leader of JUI-ideological Maulana Asmatullah, leader of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat Balochistan Maulana Muhammad Ramzan Mengal, Balochistan National Party Mengal's leader Agha Hassan Baloch, Muhammad Qasim Khan Soori of PTI, Naveed Ahmed of JWP, Molvi Asmatullah ... (more)

According to police, the Balochistan Constabulary personnel were in a bus en route to Balochistan Secretariat when they came under attack near Link Badini Road in the proximity of Bhossa Mandi on Eastern Bypass.

QUETTA: The National Party has asked the PML-N to give the office of Balochistan chief minister to it keeping in view the political and social scenario in the province.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility on Thursday for an explosion that killed 11 security personnel and two civilians in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province.

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.

Car packed with explosives detonated by remote control as special forces vehicle passes by, killing 11 police and one civilian The wreckage of a Pakistani police special forces vehicle after the blast in Quetta.

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.

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.

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.