Pakistan Tribal Feuds Claim at Least 12 Lives

Gunfights between rival tribes Thursday killed at least 12 people in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, government officials said.

Six of the 12, including a government official and his son, were killed in a gunfight between Tarin and Nasar tribes near the northern Baluchistan town of Ziarat, the officials said in the provincial capital Quetta. In Baluchistan’s tribal society, feuds are often settled violently.