QUETTA: The coal mines of Balochistan claimed the lives of 89 workers in 2025, according to alarming new data, highlighting a persistent and deadly crisis in the province’s mining sector.
Statistics released by the Pakistan Central Mines Labour Federation reveal that Balochistan’s mines remain the most dangerous in the country. The year’s toll was punctuated by a deadly December, where eight miners perished in seven separate incidents.
The provincial disparity is stark. While 41 deaths were recorded in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s mines, 14 in Punjab, and six in Sindh, Balochistan’s fatality rate was more than double that of all other provinces combined. The federation’s data paints a grim long-term picture, indicating that a total of 618 miners have died in the province over the last eight years.
Sultan Muhammad Khan, leader of the federation, detailed the daily horrors faced by workers. “Miners face deaths due to suffocation, poisonous gas, roof collapses, explosions, and serious lung diseases in coal mines,” he stated. He condemned the lack of basic safety enforcement and called for urgent government intervention.
“The protection of the lives of miners is their fundamental right, which should be ensured,” Khan demanded, urging authorities to mandate and strictly implement modern safety protocols, proper ventilation, and emergency response measures in all mines to end the cycle of preventable deaths.
Meanwhile rain and snowfall continued for second day in Quetta and its suburbs region meanwhile three people dead after roof collapsed in Dera Murad Jamali on Wednesday.
After long dry spells which caused feraed of drought across balochistion the late wenter rain started which brought snowfall and intesfications in cold.
Rain and snowfall brought too much problem for the Quetta residents as the power and gas supply interpted due to rain.
Quetta electric supply says that most of the city power feaders traips due to rains and encroachment in differnet areas, they are 24 hours working on restoration of supply lines to ensure uninterputed power supply.
