7 Killed in Southwest Pakistan

Officials in southwestern Pakistan say gunmen have shot dead seven laborers. Authorities say the victims were from eastern Punjab province, and were kidnapped from a poultry farm in the restive Baluchistan province. Baluchistan has been in the grip of a low-level separatist insurgency for years.  Nationalist Baluch groups in the poverty-stricken region have long accused the federal government of extracting Baluchistan’s natural resources, but paying no attention to the plight of...

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