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Pak-German Self Help Project. (till 1991) Balochistan Rural Support Programme ( BRSP) was a project funded by the German technical cooperation agency Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in the early 1980s which was converted into the Balochistan Rural Support Programme in 1991. [2] It is a Non Government Organization ...
St. Mary's High School, Quetta, is a high school located in Quetta, the capital of the Balochistan province of Pakistan. History and operations [ edit ] The school conducts classes from playgroup to class 10 (Secondary School Certificate of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Balochistan ).
February 2013 Quetta bombing. / 30.36; 67.02. On 16 February 2013, at least 91 people were killed and 190 injured after a bomb hidden in a water tank exploded at a market in Hazara Town on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital city of Balochistan, Pakistan. [1] Most of the victims were members of the predominantly Shia Twelver ethnic Hazara ...
According to the World Travel and Tourism Council, the direct contribution of travel and tourism to Pakistan's GDP in 2016 was Rs.793 billion (equivalent to Rs. 4.0 trillion or US$14 billion in 2021), constituting 2.7% of the total GDP. [11]
The Indian Hospital Corps (IHC) initially was divided into 10 Division Companies, which corresponded to the 10 existing Military Divisions in India and Burma. They were located at Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Multan, Quetta, Mhow, Poona, Meerut, Lucknow, Secunderabad and Rangoon . The whole corps was re-organized on command basis five ...
1935 Quetta earthquake. / 29.5; 66.8. An earthquake occurred on 31 May 1935 between 2:30 am and 3:40 am at Quetta, Balochistan, British India (now part of Pakistan ), close to the border with southern Afghanistan. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.7 M w [3] and anywhere between 30,000 and 60,000 people died from the impact. [2]
Climate of Quetta. Quetta, Pakistan features a continental semi-arid climate with a large variation between summer and winter temperatures. The highest temperature recorded in Quetta was 42 °C (108 °F) on 10 July 1998. [1] The lowest temperature in Quetta is −18.3 °C (−0.9 °F) which was recorded on 8 January 1970. [1]
Quetta bomb attack. On 8 August 2013, a suicide attacker exploded a bomb at a funeral being held for a police officer in Quetta, Pakistan, and killed as many as thirty-seven [1] people and injured over fifty people. No group has taken responsibility for the bombing, but it is believed [by whom?] that the Taliban were behind the bombing.