10-08-2016 02:51 via news.yahoo.com

Top Asian News 12:51 a.m. GMT

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Many Pakistanis were in deep mourning on Tuesday, a day after a suicide bombing that targeted lawyers killed 70 people in the city of Quetta, touching a chord in the country's long-simmering culture war. By targeting lawyers, Islamic radicals appeared to take aim at a pillar of the country's budding civil society — and a symbol of the supremacy of secular law in a modern state. Across the country, many courts were closed and lawyers staged rallies in support o
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