Pakistan marks deadliest year in a decade as militant attacks soar

Government battling Islamist threat and separatist insurgency in restive province

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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)

ADNAN AAMIR, Contributing writer

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.

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