Dr Mahrang Baloch makes it to TIME’s 100 most influential people list

Dr Mahrang Baloch, a human rights activist and leader of Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), has been featured among Time magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People 2024’ list for “advocating peacefully for Baloch rights”. The list, which includes leaders, innovators, advocates and artists, recognise many of today’s most influential leaders “who are not waiting long in life to make an impact,” the magazine said on Wednesday. Mahrang was selected for “advocating peacefully” for Baloch rights and leading the December 2023 march to Islamabad, where hundreds of women sought “justice for their husbands, sons, and…

PPP ‘agrees so far’ on constitutional court formation amid calls for judicial package

QUETTA: Amid concerns of the opposition over the ‘controversial’ constitutional package, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said that his party has assented to the ruling PML-N’s proposal for establishing a federal constitutional court as yet. “We have no issue if anyone of the top two judges sits in the constitutional court,” he said while speaking at a Balochistan High Court (BHC) Bar’s session in Quetta on Tuesday. Bilawal, the former foreign minister, elucidated that his struggle was for the constitutional amendment and not for the incumbent chief justice, Qazi Faez…