Word: quetta
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...killing two CIA employees and wounding three other people. Kansi, whose prints were allegedly found on the spent shell casings, was identified as the prime suspect. However, the day after the shooting, he left the U.S. on a one-way ticket to Karachi. Soon he made his way to Quetta, Pakistan, capital of the province of Baluchistan, an area in which Kansi's Pashtun tribal clan has long exercised great political influence. Allegedly aided by family, friends and sympathizers, Kansi was initially hard to trace, and opportunities to apprehend him were nearly impossible to arrange. Locating and capturing Kansi became...
Conservative editorial writers in Pakistani newspapers are already criticizing the government for handing over Kansi to the Americans without following typical extradition procedures; in the suspect's hometown of Quetta a steady stream of well-wishers have come to the Kansi family home to express anger over the matter. "Kansi is a local hero," says Syed Talat Hussain, a newspaper columnist. "People praise him for the audacity of his crime. He took on the most dreaded intelligence agency in the world, and that gave him instant popularity." By contrast, in Washington there is only exultation. Kansi, who made incriminating statements...
Perhaps in Pakistan. Kansi, a member of a wealthy Pakistani family, has reportedly been seen in his hometown of Quetta. "We're trying to confirm that he's there," says Fairfax County police department spokesperson Robert Wall. "Pakistani officials are cooperating in the fullest." Still, the question remains: If Kansi did commit the alleged crime, why? No explanation so far is satisfactory. Says Wall: "There are a million theories. They have to be % checked one at a time." Law-enforcement officials may have to catch the man to find the motive...