Residents of Pakistan’s Balochistan Province say flooding in August followed by an earthquake in September have been too much to bear, coming as they did just a few years after a devastating cyclone.
A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck south-west Pakistan this morning, killing at least 30 people according to local reports.
External perceptions of Pakistani politics and society are often fallacious. The analysis, policies, and decisions based on these perceptions, assumptions, and myths regarding Pakistan in the outer world are therefore often fruitless. Whilst the fallacies are numerous, by following BuzzFeed’s lead and producing a top ten list a picture begins to emerge.
The leader of the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Nasser al-Wahishi, has vowed to free militants currently imprisoned around the region.
Ten people have been killed in a targeted shooting in Quetta in south-west Pakistan, in a week that has also seen a suicide bomb which killed at least 48 people and the targeting of a bus by militants in the region.