Powerful earthquake hits Pakistan
International media report that around 160 people died in this morning's heavy earthquake. Many spent the night in zero temperatures in the open. Photo: alertnet.org/REUTERS
Balochistan is a very poor, but also thinly populated region in Pakistan, where the central government in Islamabad commands very little authority.
In that year, a quake of a magnitude of 7,6 hit the Pakistan part of Kashmir, claiming over 80,000 lives.