Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Is Pakistan Turning A Blind Eye To Radicals In Quetta

Security officials survey a damaged bus which was hit by a bomb attack in Quetta, Pakistan, June 18. A car bomb exploded near a university bus on Monday killing three students and wounding over 25 other people, most of them students, in Pakistan's southwest, police said, and reported by local media. Naseer Ahmed/REUTERS

Pakistan Bombing Hints At Free Rein For Radicals In Quetta -- Christian Science Monitor

A bus bombing in Quetta is the latest attack on Shiite Hazaras. The lack of arrests have prompted the Hazaras to suspect the state is complicit.

The bombing of a university bus mostly filled with Shiite Hazaras killed at least four students in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province on Monday.

Balochistan borders Afghanistan and is widely seen as the base for the Afghan Taliban leadership. Yesterday's attacks were carried out by another set of jihadis in the region, a reminder that the large Pakistani security presence here has focused more on pinning down an ethnic uprising than cleaning up Islamic militancy.

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My Comment: And Pakistan wonders why the U.S. did not trust them to tell them that they were going to take out Osama bin Laden when his sanctuary was discovered.

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