Dozens Dead in Pakistan Amid Spike in Separatist Violence

Terrorist attacks on police stations, railway lines, and highways and the retaliatory strikes by security forces have killed more than 60 people in southwestern Pakistan, officials said on Monday. The biggest assault by secessionist terrorists in years forms part of a decades-long campaign by some in Balochistan to break away from the government in Islamabad. The resource-rich southwestern province is home to major China-led projects including a strategic port and a gold and copper mine. “These attacks are a well thought out plan to create anarchy in Pakistan,” Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said in a statement, adding that security forces had killed 12 terrorists in operations after the attacks on Sunday and Monday....