Sorry, I couldn't resist.

I think you meant killing scores. And yes, I wonder. I think it is because the Pakistani government doesn't really want to admit the fact that they approve of some of these.

corrected

God, I hate threads that start out this way.

The relief to their sores must be a soothing!

All kidding aside, I agree about the lack of coverage regarding the drone strikes.

At Least 40 Killed In Pakistan Bombing

DAVID TAINTOR 10:55 AM EST, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 16, 2013

At least 40 people were killed Saturday when a bomb struck a market in Quetta, Pakistan, CNN reported. More than 100 people were injured in attack, which targeted Shiites, according to the report.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/at-least-40-killed-in-pakistan-bombing

just read something on a web site

Who can we trust for that answer?

Recall what happened in Iraq?

If you were having trouble with your dissidents and you wanted some of them dead, but as little blood as possible on your own hands, what might you do? What was OBL's home country and didn't they just export their dissident problems to a certain proxy nation known as Afghanistan, which borders on Pakistan?

I don't know for sure, because I've never been a dictator in a country full of people at one another's throats about their histories in the whole region, some of whom have an alliance with a well-armed buddy who also has a history in the region . . . .

just sayin'

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014401000

Guess it's difficult to find the LBN section...

Bombs killing Pakistanis in Pakistan, though common, are rarely covered outside of Pakistan.

or the 2 bombs in Syria recently.

That is, not MSM news....thankfully we have the internet to find news that matters.

Except that Syria fits a nice narrative. Good versus bad, totalitarianism vs. democracy.

The bad guy is an acceptable bad guy. Granted, there's vacillation over the "good guy," but we still like hating on the bad guy.

In Pakistan we don't think of the Shi'ites as good guys or the Sunnis as bad guys. We don't like the narrative of Muslims killing Muslims, not because it puts them in a bad light but because there's no us involved. When the Taliban in Pakistan kills an aid worker, when there's some attack on a girls' school, when there's some attack on US soldiers or Afghan official, there's a good bad guy. Sometimes it's the US, sometimes it's because the US was involved, sometimes it's because there are bad religious people out to keep women barefoot and pregnant. Nice narrative.

Can't sort out Muslim-on-Muslim oppression. Esp. Sunni-on-Shi'ite. And esp. when it's majority Sunnis-as-oppressors on minority Shi'ites-as-oppressed. Why, that means that the Sunni attacks on Shi'ites in Iraq might not be what we think they are. Or the Sunni attacks on Shi'ites in Syria may not be what we think they are. We can't let it be religious because that might mean some other attacks that fit our domestic, US-based narrative might also be religious.

So we ignore them, pretty much. No, they aren't completely ignored. They are mentioned. Then they vanish from the media and it's like they never happened.