Chaudhry Aslam, a senior counterterrorism police officer in Karachi, blamed the Taliban for attacks including a March 3 bombing at an apartment block targeting the minority Shiite population that killed at least 48 people and injured 180.

WSJ: Taliban Thrive in Pakistani Commercial Hub

After the war, the communists decided to exploit a huge coalmine underneath it, swelling the population to 70, 000 housed in block after block of hideous high-rise concrete hulks, utterly devoid of a sense of community.

ECONOMIST: Saxon snapshots

And Texas Democrats have been less successful than their California counterparts at turning the state's Latino population (nearly 30%) into a solid Democratic voting block.

ECONOMIST: Democrats in Texas

He emphasized that constitutional right to education ought to be enforced to block further addition of illiterate youth and adults in the existing lot of illiterate population.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

But having failed to get anywhere with its proposal for voting weights based on the square root of a country's population, Poland is now talking about ways of making it more difficult for large countries to block a qualified majority vote.

BBC: NEWS | Europe | Poles in war of words over voting

States could shift 30 percent of their welfare block grant to programs to protect and care for children, the most vulnerable part of the welfare population.

CNN: D.C. Brigadoon -- Applaud It While It Lasts!

But on Wednesday, MEPs using powers granted under the Lisbon Treaty voted 326 to 296 to block the renewal, saying there was not enough evidence to show the deal would benefit the Sahrawi population, who live in Western Sahara.

BBC: Morocco bans EU fishing vessels amid Western Sahara row