ISLAMABAD -- When a suicide bomb ripped through the main railway station in the Pakistani city of Quetta last month, it was another grim addition to the country's bloodiest year in nearly a decade.
Government battling Islamist threat and separatist insurgency in restive province

Pakistani security officials inspect the scene of a blast at a railway station in Quetta, the provincial capital of restive Balochistan province, on Nov. 9. (Photo by EPA/Jiji)
ISLAMABAD -- When a suicide bomb ripped through the main railway station in the Pakistani city of Quetta last month, it was another grim addition to the country's bloodiest year in nearly a decade.