Quetta

Car Bomb Rips Through Upscale Neighborhood, Killing At Least 9

AP | MUNIR AHMED | Posted 02.29.2012

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's Supreme Court set up a judicial commission Friday to investigate a secret memo scandal that threatens the government, law...

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Suicide Bombers Attack House Of A Top Military Officer In Pakistan

AP | ABDUL SATTAR | Posted 11.06.2011

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By ABDUL SATTAR, Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan — A pair of suicide bombers killed 22 people while targeting a top army officer in southwest P...

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Gunmen Ambush Minibus With Shiites In Quetta, 11 Killed

AP | Posted 09.29.2011

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QUETTA, Pakistan — Gunmen opened fire on a minibus carrying minority Shiite Muslims in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing 11 people in w...

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Gunmen Kidnap 8 Pakistani Aid Workers Of U.S.-Based Organization

Posted 09.19.2011

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Gunmen have kidnapped eight Pakistani aid workers of the U.S.-based American Refugee Committee, according to the Associated Press. The workers went m...

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Pakistan in Ten Years: The Optimistic View

Howard Schweber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Howard Schweber

So is Pakistan a failed state, or on its way out of the morass in which it presently finds itself? I think there are three reasons for Pakistan to be optimistic.

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Contemplation of Drone Strikes in Quetta Belies Obama's Claim of Just War

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

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Derrick Crowe

The US is rattling a saber about killing people in Quetta, despite all the inevitable civilian death and mass outrage. Such a move would show the shallowness of the "just war" talk in Obama's disgraceful Nobel paean to Mars.

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Snake Eyes in Afghanistan

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

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Derrick Crowe

None of the credible options in Afghanistan offer real chances for rolling back the insurgent reaction to our presence or reducing terrorism against the United States.

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Bride, Groom Among 14 Killed In Pakistan

Nation | Posted 05.25.2011

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QUETTA-At least 14 people including a bride and bridegroom were killed and 20 others sustained critical injuties, some of them seriously, in separate ...

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American UN Official, John Solecki, Kidnapped By Gunmen In Pakistan

AP | ABDUL SATTAR | Posted 05.25.2011

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QUETTA, Pakistan — Gunmen seized an American U.N. worker as he rode to work, shooting and killing his driver, U.N. and Pakistani authorities sai...

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