city:quetta

Several dead in attack on Pakistani Shias - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English
►http://english.aljazeera.net//news/asia/2011/05/2011564225623885.html

At least eight Shia Muslims have been killed and 10 others wounded after suspected Sunni extremists opened fire on them in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, police say.

Hamid Shakil, a police official, said the victims were in a neighbourhood park when they were shot at on Friday.

He said the assailants fled after the attack, the first since the killing on Monday by US forces of Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad.

Ça c’est incroyable : on va réussir à te fabriquer une affaire de « chiites » au Pakistan. Ami journaliste, je te donne une piste pour ta carrière : éditorialise sur le conflit entre sunnites et chiites au Pakistan, tu vas voir, c’est un thème-à-la-con qui va devenir super porteur, coco.

#pakistan

Who Is the « Taliban » ?
▻http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/486019/who_is_the_taliban

Truth is, the Afghan insurgency is a volatile and highly complex phenomenon, involving three interlinked insurgent groups, the Taliban itself (based in Quetta and run by Mullah Omar and his council, or shura), the Haqqani group, and the Hizb-e Islami group of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.The three are partners of sorts, but they are different entities with their own ties to supporters, including links to the Pakistani ISI. Alongside them, and working with them, are various criminal gangs, drug organizations, timber and diamond smugglers, tribal chieftains and warlords, the shattered remnants of Al Qaeda, Uzbek militants, and more.

#taliban #afghanistan #war