A suspected suicide bomb blast during a procession to commemorate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad has left more than 50 people dead and many more wounded in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province. It was not the only attack on Friday. Host Carol Hills speaks with Asfandyar Mir, a senior expert at the United States Institute of Peace, about the growing instability in Pakistan caused by ISIS and the Pakistani Taliban.
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