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QUETTA: Chakar Marri, a 23-year-old zoology student at Balochistan University, has “gone missing” after the Frontier Corps (FC) took him into custody on September 3.

QUETTA: The Balochistan National Party (BNP) has demanded an immediate and dignified return of all Afghan refugees from Balochistan back to their native Afghanistan in order to maintain durable peace in Balochistan. The Party believes it is impossible to bring peace in Balochistan as long as the Afghan refugees live inside the province and indulge in various forms of terrorist activities and religious radicalization.

IN its latest economic report on Balochistan the World Bank has not presented us with good news. Pakistan’s poorest province is growing poorer, its economic growth lagging behind that of the other provinces.

ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: Balochistan has the weakest long-term growth performance of all provinces in the country, according to a World Bank study.

The ‘Balochistan Economic Report 2009’, which took into account statistics from 1972-73 to 2005-06, said the province’s economy expanded by 2.7 times in Balochistan, 3.6 times in the NWFP and Sindh and four times in Punjab.

On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, BBC Mundo looks at barriers which are still standing - or have gone up since - around the world.

In 2007, Iran began to build a wall on the border with Pakistan, in an area known as Balochistan.

BARKHAN:  A complete shutter down strike was observed in Barkhan district to protest against the killing of sub-house office (SHO) Riaz Ahmed Zehri, a son of Mir Amanullah Zehri, a senior leader of the Balochistan National Party.

QUETTA: The Balochistan National Party (BNP) has announced to launch a Balochistan-wide shutter down strike movement from October 30 to November 6 to condemn the murder of police sub-house officer (SHO), Mir Riaz Ahmed Zehri, a son of senior BNP leader Mir Amanullah Zehri.