QUETTA: Unidentified gunmen attacked a marble mining site in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province and kidnapped at least 18 local laborers, a senior police official said on Sunday, amid an uptick in kidnappings of government officials and laborers in the mineral-rich region. Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest but least developed province that borders Iran and Afghanistan, has been the site of a long running separatist insurgency and has witnessed an uptick in violence over the recent year



