Vox Sentences: A lawyer was killed in Pakistan. Then a suicide bomber blew up the mourners.

It's not safe to be a lawyer in southwestern Pakistan; Ethiopia's embattled government kills nearly 100 protesters.

Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.

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A terrorist attack in two parts

Anadolu Agency / Mazhar Chandio

• At least 69 people were killed Monday in a suicide bombing at a hospital in the town of Quetta, in southwestern Pakistan, on Monday.

  [NBC News ]

• The bombing was the second part of a two-part attack. Earlier Monday, the president of the province's bar association was killed; as lawyers gathered at the hospital to demand an autopsy on his body, the bomber attacked.

  [NYT / Salman Masood]

• ISIS and a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban have both claimed responsibility for the attack.

  [The Diplomat / Kunwar Khuldune Shahid]

• Balochistan, the province in which Quetta is located, has seen an uptick in targeted killings (many of them lawyers) in recent months; a longstanding separatist insurgency is dying down but is being replaced by religious terrorism.

  [The Guardian / Taha Siddiqui and Saeed Kamali Dehghan]

• To some observers, the violence in Balochistan is a reminder that driving terrorists out of one area (the Federally Administered Tribal Areas near the Afghanistan/Pakistan border) often drives them into another.

  [Al Jazeera / Tom Hussain]

• Some Pakistani officials explain it another way: as an attempt to sabotage the government's plan to create an economic corridor to China.

  [Dow Jones Business News]

• But a local newspaper says that, if anything, the government's refusal to invest in Balochistan has made it hard for residents of Balochistan to fight off the new wave of terrorism.

  [The Nation (Pakistan)]

Ethiopia cracks down

AFP

• The Ethiopian government killed nearly 100 protesters over the weekend in two different incidents, marking a new and deadlier phase for increasingly tense protests around the country.

  [The Telegraph (UK) / Aislinn Niang]

• The epicenter of protests has been the region of Oromia, where protesters first mobilized in November against a proposal to expand the boundaries of the capital Addis Ababa deeper into the region.

  [FT / Edith Honan]

• But even after the expansion plans were dropped, the Oromo — who are the country's largest ethnic group, but are totally shut out of its politics and its authoritarian government — have continued to protest.

  [Al Jazeera / Awol K. Allo]

• At least 67 protesters were killed in Oromia. Another 30 were killed in protests in the northern town of Bahir Dar in the region of Amhara — where protesters are demanding that an area get returned to the control of the regional government.

  [AP / Elias Meseret]

• The two protest movements aren't yet connected, though protesters in Amhara have started to express solidarity with the Oromo. But increasingly, protesters have started to mobilize against the government itself.

  [BBC ]

• The current government has tried to balance ethnic federalism with an authoritarian power structure. It may now finally be breaking apart.

  [BBC ]

Old ideas in new gold-and-marble, Trump-branded packages

Getty / Bill Pugliano

• In a speech Monday, Donald Trump outlined an economic agenda that sounded weirdly similar to all the orthodox, pro-business GOP ideas he was supposed to be disrupting.

  [Vox / Timothy B. Lee]

• He called for a repeal of the estate tax (which a Trump adviser referred to as the "linchpin" of the conservative movement) and for a moratorium on new "agency regulations."

  [Bloomberg / Sahil Kapur]

• Trump's diagnosis of the problem still sounds populist — for example, he's continuing to insinuate that the government is cooking the books on the unemployment rate (a talking point Haley Edwards explains and debunks for Time).

  [Time / Haley Sweetland Edwards]

• And a forthcoming proposal to make child care expenses tax-deductible (which he's reportedly working on with daughter Ivanka) could be an interesting reform — depending on how it's done.

  [WSJ / Nick Timiraos and Beth Reinhard]

• (A straightforward tax deduction would only help rich families.)

  [Think Progress / Bryce Covert]

• This proposal was insufficient to mollify women protesters who interrupted Trump's speech at regular intervals more than a dozen times. But Trump managed not to respond to them — and then sent out an email fundraising request praising his own self-control.

  [Alana Wise via Twitter]

MISCELLANEOUS

This feminist critique of gymnastics circa 2016 is going to make it harder for you to root unreservedly for Team USA. You should read it anyway. [New York / Meghan O'Rourke]

• Meet Evan McMullin, the NeverTrump conservative candidate for president who could deny Donald Trump the state of Utah — and the presidency.

  [Vox / Andrew Prokop]

• Most Americans know crime isn't going up in their neighborhood. Many of them still think it's going up everywhere else. (It's not.)

  [Huffington Post / Ryan J. Reilly and Ariel Edwards-Levy]

• Apparently there's no consistent Spanish translation of the Miranda warning.

  [Law.com / Tony Mauro]

• One big problem with weighting your poll based on how people say they voted in 2012: People tend to be unwilling to admit they voted for a loser.

  [NYT / Nate Cohn]

VERBATIM

"We have no idea how many Americans are injured annually at the nation’s amusement parks." [Slate / Helaine Olen]

• "Participants came away knowing how to locate the 'deep blue indigo tunnel' at the 'throat center,' but not how to write an effective fundraising email."

  [Huffington Post / Eliot Nelson]

• "I remember other kids assuming my sister was Latina. I never wondered why no one made a similar mistake about me."

  [This Land / Jezy J. Gray]

• "His job was getting difficult with the indefensible things being said about immigrants."

  [As told to BuzzFeed News / Adrian Carrasquillo]

• "We are delighted to say that we were wrong."

  [New York Daily News]

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