Topic - Quetta

Quetta ( above sea level, making it Pakistan's only high-altitude major city. The population of the city is estimated to be approximately one million. - Source: Wikipedia

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Paramedics and volunteers transport an injured victim of a bomb explosion in Mastung town, upon arrival at a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Bomb targeting police assigned for polio drive kills 9 people, including 5 children, in SW Pakistan

By Abdul Sattar - Associated Press

Local residents and Afghan nationals chant slogan during a protest rally in the southwestern border town of Chaman, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. Tens of thousands of people, including Afghans, rallied in Chaman to denounce the government plan under which they are now required to travel to Afghanistan on visa. Earlier, special permits had been given to the residents to visit Afghanistan. The rallygoers also opposed the crackdown against the Afghans, demanding it should be reversed. (AP Photo/Jafar Khan)

Pakistan sets up deportation centers to hold migrants who are in the country illegally

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Riot police officers stand guard outside a court where former Prime Minister Imran Khan appeared for his case, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, March 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) ** FILE **

Bomb targeting Pakistani police in SW kills 4, wounds 15

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A local resident looks his damaged house following a severe earthquake hit the area, in Harnai, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Quetta, Pakistan, Thursday, Pakistan. A powerful earthquake shook parts of southwestern Pakistan early Thursday. (AP Photo)

Strong earthquake in southwest Pakistan kills at least 23

By Kathy Gannon and Abdul Sattar - Associated Press

People pray at the grave of a victim who was killed in the Wednesday bomb blast in a luxury hotel in Quetta, Pakistan, Thursday, April 22, 2021. An attack at a luxury hotel in Pakistan has been confirmed as a suicide car bombing, and the death toll has risen to five, police said Thursday. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Death toll from suicide car bombing rises to 5 in Pakistan

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Smoke blows from a burning vehicles at the site of bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. A powerful bomb went off in the parking area of a five-star Serena hotel in the southwestern city of Quetta on Wednesday, wounding some people, police said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Bombing in hotel parking lot kills at least 4 in SW Pakistan

By ABDUL SATTAR AND MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Bombing in southwestern Pakistan kills 2 people, wounds 5

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People from the Shiite Hazara community gather around the bodies of coal mine workers who were killed by unknown gunmen near the Machh coal field, in Quetta, Pakistan, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021. Gunmen opened fire on a group of minority Shiite Hazara coal miners after abducting them, killing 11 in southwestern Baluchistan province early Sunday, a Pakistani official said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Pakistani Shiites continue sit-in over killing of 11 miners

By ABDUL SATTAR and MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

People from the Shiite Hazara community chant slogans beside caskets of coal mine workers who were killed by unknown gunmen near the Machh coal field, during a sit-in protest, in Quetta, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. Gunmen opened fire on a group of minority Shiite Hazara coal miners after abducting them, killing 11 in southwestern Baluchistan province early Sunday, a Pakistani official said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Pakistani Shiites rally against killing of coal miners by IS

By ABDUL SATTAR - Associated Press

Pakistani police officer stands guard at the site of bomb explosion in a mosque in Quetta, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 10, 2020. A powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in southwest Pakistan during Friday evening prayers, killing a senior police officer with some civilians and wounded other worshipers, police said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Pakistan mosque blast kills senior police officer, 13 others

By ABDUL SATAR - Associated Press

Pakistani police officers examine the site of a bomb explosion in Quetta, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. A powerful roadside bomb exploded near a vehicle carrying Pakistani security forces in the country's southwest, killing soldiers and wounded others, a police official said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Bomb hits security forces in SW Pakistan; 2 dead, 12 wounded

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Officials: Shiite killed, 13 wounded in SW Pakistan bombing

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Bomb targeting police vehicle kills 4 in Pakistan

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Pakistani volunteers rush an injured boy to a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, Tuesday, July 23, 2019. A Pakistani official says a roadside bomb has exploded in a market on the outskirts of Quetta, killing several and wounding dozens. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Market bombing in Pakistan kills 2, wounds 29

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Pakistan official: Bomb at Quetta mosque kills 2, wounds 28

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