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Quetta

[ kwet-uh ]

noun

  1. a city in W central Pakistan: the capital of Baluchistan; almost totally destroyed by an earthquake 1935.


Quetta

/ ˈkwɛtə /

noun

  1. a city in W central Pakistan, at an altitude of 1650 m (5500 ft): a summer resort, military station, and trading centre. Pop: 744 000 (2005 est)


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“The Syrian war is having its effects here as well,” said Yehyavi, the Iranian consul general in Quetta.

He moved to Afghanistan and then back to Pakistan via Quetta and is now in Karachi.

He suggested the return of the “five guys to Qatar” is “like moving the whole Quetta shura to Qatar.”

The two groups operate semi-autonomously but both fall under the leadership of the Quetta Shura leadership council.

And major moves, like this ceasefire, would undoubtedly be blessed by the Quetta Shura.

Then we should miss, perhaps, a great number of new rifles which seek their way up from Quetta to the North.

I was four days a scullion at Quetta, waiting on the wife of the man whose book I stole.

Macgregor's brigade started for Quetta on the 8th, and was followed soon after by Baker's and Macpherson's brigades.

Shall (or Quetta as we know it now) is described as a town of about 300 houses, surrounded by a slight crenelated wall.

It seems to me now that all our time at Quetta was spent in such mimic fighting.

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