Boots, guns, tanks now come to Daily Balochistan Express/ Azadi


<img By Malik Siraj Akbar “I told the forces deployed outside my office that I was a journalist not a “terrorist”,” recalls Rashid Baloch [name changed], a reporter affiliated with Quetta-based daily Balochistan Express. Rashid, 25, was on his way for the morning shift at the newspaper office located a few hundred meters away from … Read more

Journalism at college level: Now for Balochistan too


In its previous session, the Balochistan Assembly passed a significant resolution which now introduces journalism/Mass Communication at intermediate level in all colleges of Balochistan. This is good news for all of us working in the media. We have been pressing for along time that Journalism be taught at college level as the subject is already … Read more

Baloch organisation claims torching university buses


By Malik Siraj Akbar QUETTA: Activists belonging to an organization calling itself the Baloch Warna Organization [The Baloch youth organization] claimed on Monday responsibility for burning two and damaging one students’ buses belonging to the Balochistan University of Information Technology and Management Sciences (BUITMS). According to the police officials, unknown masked persons stopped the BUITMS … Read more

‘Army raid’ in New Kahan


* 1,000 kg of explosives seized * Anjuman Ittehad-e-Marri says raid carried out by Pakistan Army By Malik Siraj Akbar QUETTA: Law enforcement agencies claimed late on Monday to have detained three suspected terrorists and recovered 1,000 kilogrammes of explosives in a raid on a Baloch settlement in the outskirts of the provincial capital. According … Read more

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