QUETTA:  Oman has agreed to release a grant of $44 million it had announced 10 years ago for launching development projects in Balochistan, including the construction of an international airport in Gwadar.

KARACHI, Jan 14: Ten of the 54 falcons caught by the Coast Guards near Jiwani late on Thursday were set free near Gwadar, some 600 kilometres from here, on Friday evening, a Balochistan wildlife official told Dawn, adding that one falcon had died.

Sino-Indian rivalry in the Indian Ocean and India’s naval cooperation with the US draw the world’s attention. But quietly, out of sight, a contest has been building in the Arabian Sea centred between two ports, one based in Pakistan and the other in Iran.

Pak-China relationship is an example of unprecedented and time-tested friendship. In the bi-lateral relationship of nations, there have been very less occasions once such a long-standing friendship has continued without having an iota of misunderstanding for so long.

Talking to journalists the other day, the Balochistan Chief Minister, Nawab Aslam Raisani, made a strong plea for using the Gwadar Port for Afghan Transit Trade. He said that he had asked the ‘relevant authorities’ to supply fuel to the Nato forces in Afghanistan through this port, and that the provincial government is ready to[…]

(January 09, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian)There is a need for the US to pay more attention to Balochistan as part of its Af-Pak strategy in order to pacify the Pashtun militancy encouraged by Al Qaeda and the Talibans operating in the Pashtun belt on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

QUETTA: The Balochistan High Court (BHC) asked the provincial government on Friday to explain how it can lease hundreds of acres of land to UAE nationals for bird hunting and restrained it from taking any further steps in this regard.

PARIS: Sino-Indian rivalry in the Indian Ocean and India’s naval cooperation with the US draw the world’s attention. But quietly, out of sight, a contest has been building in the Arabian Sea centered between two ports, one based in Pakistan and the other in Iran.

Baloch National Movement, BSO-Azad calls for shutter-down, wheel-jam strike in Makran Staff report QUETTA: Two more bullet-riddled dead bodies of leaders of the Baloch Students Organisation-Azad were recovered in a deserted place near Pasni Road in Turbat, around 800 kilometres away from the provincial capital, on Wednesday.

ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: The Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) informed the Supreme Court on Tuesday that its contract to run the Gwadar Port has been challenged in the court not in the public interest but to protect the interests of a Karachi-based cartel.