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Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani invited ethnic Baluch leaders for talks on Tuesday in an effort to ease a separatist insurgency in their gas and mineral-rich province bordering Afghanistan and Iran. Baluch nationalists have for decades campaigned...
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Gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot dead on Sunday the minister of education in Pakistan's Baluchistan provincial government, Shafiq Ahmed Khan, in the city of Quetta, police and hospital officials said. "He was wounded in the head and succumbed to his...
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PARIS: A French tourist kidnapped in May in Pakistan has been freed, French authorities said on Friday. Antoine Falsaperla was seized at gunpoint while travelling with a group of other French nationals in the southwestern Baluchistan province, near the...
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French tourist kidnapped in Balochistan freed Friday, 21 Aug, 2009 01:07 PM PST He was taken hostage on May 23 by armed men in the province and was released on Friday by the kidnappers. — Photo by AP QUETTA: A French tourist taken hostage May 23 by...
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QUETTA: Police say three bomb explosions have killed a man and wounded 18 other people in Baluchistan, an impoverished but oil-rich province in Pakistan where Baluch nationalist groups have been fighting for more autonomy for decades. Police officer Abdul...
Tags: Baluchistan, Pakistan
Sardar Rustam Jamali, 46, was on a private visit to Karachi and riding in his car when the assailants opened fire on Thursday. The excise minister sustained injuries in the attack and was taken to a nearby hospital, where he later died of his wounds.
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Staff Report PHUKET: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has dismissed rumors that the growing U.S., India relations could prove negative for Pakistan, stating that they will not have any effect on the nation and that diplomatic talks with...
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PARIS: France's Foreign Ministry says a French tourist has been kidnapped in southern Pakistan. A statement Saturday from the Foreign Ministry said officials at the French Embassy in Islamabad were working to resolve the situation. It did not provide...
Tags: Baluchistan, Pakistani, tourist kidnapping
Gunmen kidnapped a French tourist in Pakistan on Saturday, snatching him from a group of compatriots, who included women and children, in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, police said. The kidnapping took place in an area where ethnic Baluch separatist...
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Three more banks were torched in Balochistan on the second consecutive day of the strike against the murders of three Baloch political leaders in Turbat. A complete shutter-down were observed in majority districts of Balochistan on the call of Baloch...
Tags: Balochistan, Balochsitan Naitonal Party, Sher Muhamamad Baloch, Ghulam Muhammad Baloch, Lala Munir Baloch, baloch leaders, nationalists leaders, Pakistan, baloch nationalists, Baluchistan