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Restive Pakistani city in legal limbo since bombing killed, injured 150 lawyers

Hizbullah Khan

QUETTA, 24 February 2017

Pakistan’s Balochistan Province has long had a reputation for lawlessness, but it’s never been truer on a practical level than it is today. More than half the provincial capital’s lawyers were killed or injured in a bombing last August, and thousands of cases remain in legal limbo.

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