Sectarian Shooting in Pakistan Kills 8 Hazara Shiites

Gunmen opened fire on a bus in the capital of Pakistan's volatile Baluchistan province on Thursday, killing eight Shiite Muslims from the ethnic Hazara minority community. Police say four assailants on motorcycles targeted the men, who were coming from a vegetable market in Quetta. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but deadly violence against the Hazara is frequent in the country.  A suicide attacker killed at least four people in a predominantly Shiite area...

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