Pakistan's Quetta Airport Hit by Deadly Attack

A man was killed and two policemen were wounded in an attack on Quetta airport in western Pakistan on Thursday night, officials said, but the attackers did not breach the perimeter. The dead man was not immediately identified. He was killed near an airforce base that shares a runway with the civilian airport. Local residents heard at least eight blasts and gunfire that continued for around half an hour. Helicopters buzzed overhead, they said. Sarfraz Bugti, home minister in the...

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