[caption id="attachment_121763" align="alignright" width="133"] Sistan-Baluchistan province has a large Sunni Muslim community in an otherwise predominantly Shiite country, and has been plagued by violence involving Sunni extremists and drug smugglersSistan-Baluchistan province has a large Sunni Muslim community in an otherwise predominantly Shiite ...

PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) The death toll from a pair of overnight bombings at a busy market in a Shiite-dominated region of northwest Pakistan rose to 57, officials said Saturday. As many as 167 people were also wounded in Friday's apparent sectarian attacks in the town of Parachinar, which sits in the Kurram tribal area that borders Afghanistan ...