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Quetta was once called "Little Paris" due to its pleasant weather, small population and the abundant fruit orchards of its surrounding river valleys.
Today it wears the look of a sprawling shantytown with crowded roads, dirty streets and a continuing sense of foreboding.
Monday's attack on a police training college has aggravated a sense of fear rekindled by an unusually bloody attack on a city hospital in August in which more than 70 people were killed.
That incident came after a period of relative calm, generally attributed to the Pakistani military's 2014 operation in the north-western tribal areas.
That pushed the increasingly hostile Pakistani Taliban out of their sanctuaries and into Afghan territory.
It drove home the truth, though, that the militants were far from defeated. Monday's attack is a reaffirmation of that truth.
What lies behind the Quetta police academy attack? - BBC News
Two steps forward and one step back.
Today it wears the look of a sprawling shantytown with crowded roads, dirty streets and a continuing sense of foreboding.
Monday's attack on a police training college has aggravated a sense of fear rekindled by an unusually bloody attack on a city hospital in August in which more than 70 people were killed.
That incident came after a period of relative calm, generally attributed to the Pakistani military's 2014 operation in the north-western tribal areas.
That pushed the increasingly hostile Pakistani Taliban out of their sanctuaries and into Afghan territory.
It drove home the truth, though, that the militants were far from defeated. Monday's attack is a reaffirmation of that truth.
What lies behind the Quetta police academy attack? - BBC News
Two steps forward and one step back.
