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Pakistani security personnel look on as firefighters extinguish a blaze which gutted a historical building in Ziarat, 80 kilometres southeast of Quetta, on June 15, 2013. Source: AFP Photo/Banaras Khan
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 15, 2013 | World
Quetta, AP—Militants destroyed a historic house associated with the country’s founder early Saturday, shooting dead a guard, in a southwestern hotbed of ethnic nationalist insurgency, a police officer said. Attackers on motorcycles planted bombs at the 19th...
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Pakistani security officials are pictured at the site of a bomb attack on a vehicle used by security forces on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of restive Baluchistan province, on May 23, 2013. (AFP/Banaras Khan)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 23, 2013 | World
Quetta, AP—A Taliban car bomb targeting a police vehicle killed 11 policemen and one civilian Thursday in an area of southwest Pakistan wracked by Islamic militancy and a violent separatist insurgency, police said. The bombing on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital...