Balochistan s Ziarat Valley, Kan Mehtarzai and adjoining areas have received the first snowfall of the season while Swat and Kalam in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province have been blanketed by the new snowfall that began on Sunday. KP witnessed the season s first snowfall last month in the upper Usho Valley area where Mahodand Lake is the primary tourist attraction. However, that snowfall was limited to mountain tops. The real and more accessible snowfall began on Sunday and blanketed everything in Swat and Kalam. Malam Jabba s ski track has been covered with snow, though the snow is not yet deep enough to ski. A video obtained by SAMAA TV from Balochistan .
Balochistan. Often an eleven-letter bleak headline, darkened in the blood of its inhabitants killed in acts of terrorism. In the national discourse Balochistan always appears to be at the bottom of the list of the top priorities of almost all incumbent governments. Decades of institutional–at times intentional, sometimes accidental–neglect bordering on apathy widening the schisms between the haves and have-nots also became an accelerant for the already marked disconnect and distance that a certain part of the Baloch population has felt for and with Pakistan since its inception in 1947.
Balochistan, the largest province of Pakistan in terms of its size, and hugely immense natural resources and human talent seems to be in a perpetual struggle with its status of being a backbencher in the collective national consciousness.
Two women were found dead on Wednesday in the mountainous Zarghun area on the outskirts of the provincial capital due to extremely cold weather. AFP/File
QUETTA: Two women were found dead on Wednesday in the mountainous Zarghun area on the outskirts of the provincial capital due to extremely cold weather which has gripped the entire province for the last five days.
According to police, the two women of Sariab area of the provincial capital left by foot for their village on Sunday, but died on the way on the Zarghun mountains as they did not wear proper warm clothes.