Quetta

[kwet-uh]

noun

1. a city in W central Pakistan: the capital of Baluchistan; almost totally destroyed by an earthquake 1935.

Quetta

/ ˈkwɛtə /

noun

1. a city in W central Pakistan, at an altitude of 1650 m (5500 ft): a summer resort, military station, and trading centre. Pop: 744 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Nasir and I are in the city of Quetta, sitting in the waiting room of the largest military hospital in the province of Balochistan.

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Later, an officer drove us through Quetta's roads in a bus flanked by soldiers carrying rifles and ammunition hanging from their pockets.

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"I didn't know back then that the first time I'd go to Quetta, it would be for a protest demanding his release," Saira says.

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The 70-year-old lives in a small mud house on the outskirts of Quetta, not far from a symbolic graveyard dedicated to the missing.

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She was leading a protest in Quetta after 13 unclaimed bodies - feared to be missing persons - were buried in the city.

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