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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A city of west-central Pakistan west-southwest of Lahore. Ringed by mountains, it commands the entrance through the strategic Bolan Pass into Afghanistan. Population: 733,000.
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“QUETTA: A number of schools, including at least two girls 'schools, have closed down in Quetta after threatening letters were received by their managements.”
“Monday, 02 Feb, QUETTA: A Shia Muslim was killed Monday in a drive-by shooting in Quetta, AFP has learnt.”
“Omar and other leaders of the Afghan Taliban are thought to be based primarily in Quetta, a sprawling Pakistani city that the Islamabad government does not allow CIA drones to patrol.”
The Washington Post: U.S. military campaign to topple resilient Taliban hasn't succeeded
“In the mind of the ISI, India uses its new consulates in Afghanistan to back rebels in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan, whose capital, Quetta, is only a few hours 'drive from Kandahar.”
“Until he was captured in Quetta by Pakistani intelligence agents in October 2005 and handed over to the CIA, he went wherever the jihad travelled.”
“There have been sporadic reports of sightings, including one in Quetta, south-west Pakistan, in November last year, but nothing substantiated.”
“A few days later, one of the Taliban leaders brought his sick mother to Dr. Samar's clinic in Quetta (she is known as an excellent physician).”
“The week I was in Quetta, there was also a series of bomb blasts in government buildings, relating to the arrests of a hundred members of an ethnic-Baluch clan who were wanted in connection with the murder of a judge.”
“Cheap, Western-style polyesters have taken over much of the Third World, but in Quetta nearly everyone still wears traditional shalwar kameez: baggy cotton pants and a long, flowing shirt, with a blanket over the shoulder for praying and sleeping.”
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