KARACHI - Politicians on Monday challenged Interior Minister Rehman Malik for debate on Blackwater existence. Addressing a rally held in Lyari ahead of the tributes paid to slain Baloch Ittehad founder Anwar Bhaijan Baloch for his services for the social well-being of Baloch community in Karachi.

Accepting the dialogue offers, India has set February 18 and 25 for Secretary-level talks, while terrorism would top the dialogue agenda between the two countries.
Talking to media in New Delhi, Indian Home Minister Chidambaram has said that India extended talks offers to Pakistan.

Suspected militants have blown up a key gas pipeline in the southwestern Balochistan province disrupting supplies to major Pakistani cities.

Police said that in a pre-dawn attack on Monday, militants dynamited a main gas pipeline located in the western bypass in the provincial capital Quetta and fled towards the nearby hills, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Kashmir Watch, By Asad Khan Betini
 
Balochistan is suffering from Terrorists attacks and target killing, the daily carnage in the province has put all the children of Balochistan in post syndrome and bad psychological impact is being set on the children life. 

Instead of using the begged $ 2 billion to create another repressive and trigger-happy force, a better option would be giving these million acres to landless peasants and use this money to help them.

Pakistan has been hit by another bomb attack, this time in Balochistan province, a day after twin bombings killed dozens of people in Karachi.

On Saturday, twelve people were injured in the city of Quetta when a remote-controlled bomb targeting a security convoy was set off.

ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister, Mir Zafar Ullah Jamali, has recommended to President Zardari to hold personal meeting with discontented elements of Balochistan.

Western powers have responded with scepticism to a claim by Iran that a deal to swap enriched uranium for nuclear fuel could now be close. Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told a security conference in Germany that an agreement could be reached in a "not too distant future".

Ghulam Tahir
Quetta—Balochistan is without Chief Secretary for the last two days as Mr. Nasir Mehmood Khosa the outgoing Chief Secretary has taken over the charge of Chief Secretary Punjab. Mr. Nasir Mehmood Khosa played outstanding role as Chief Secretary during turbulent circumstances in the province.

BBC News, Quetta
Time hangs lazily over New Kayhan, a small village of about 4,000 people on the western outskirts of Quetta city, in south-western Pakistan. Signs of life are few and far between here.