In Pakistan’s Balochistan, deadly attacks rip uneasy migrant-local equation
Nearly half of at least 70 people killed in this week’s attacks were workers from neighbouring Punjab province. Why were they targeted?
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At least 50 civilians and security personnel were killed in about a dozen insurgent attacks in ethnic Baloch majority areas of the province over the weekend. The attacks were timed to coincide with the 17th anniversary of the 2006 assassination of the province’s former chief minister Nawab Akbar Bugti by the army after he rebelled against military dictator Pervez Musharraf.
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