QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - In a rare challenge, a Shi'ite leader publicly criticised powerful Pakistani army chief General Ashfaq Kayani over security in the country on Friday after bombings aimed at the minority sect killed 114 people.
"I ask the army chief: What have you done with these extra three years you got (in office). What did you give us except more death," Maulana Amin Shaheedi, who heads a national council of Shi'ite organisations, told a news conference.
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