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| Bhutto Killing Roils Province, Spurring Call to Quit Pakistan |
| 2008-01-09 |
| HYDERABAD, Pakistan -- Thousands of mourners who filed past the grave of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in her ancestral village aired more than their fury with her assassins. "We hate Pakistan," they chanted. "We don't want Pakistan." Ms. Bhutto, chairman for life of Pakistan's largest party, headed the mightiest aristocratic dynasty here in Sindh, the second-largest of Pakistan's four provinces. In the wake of her Dec. 27 assassination, Sindh has been swept by nationalist rage. Many Sindhis, the province's majority ethnic group, have started calling for outright independence. Support for separatism has surged among rank-and-file members of Ms. Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party here. Sindhi nationalists outside the PPP have begun to speak of launching an armed insurgency. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #6 I say it's popcorn time. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-01-09 13:21 |
| #5 Before Pakistan got nukes, menas it would have been better to have that during the presidency of Bill BJ Clinton. |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-01-09 06:55 |
| #4 Perhaps, but now is not a good time for a potential civil war to erupt in Pakistan. Not sure. The ISI will have better things to do than to protect Osama and the Taliban. Anyway it would have been better to have this civil war before Pakistan got nukes. |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-01-09 06:53 |
| #3 Perhaps, but now is not a good time for a potential civil war to erupt in Pakistan Like there is ever a good time, huh? |
| Posted by: Elmineling Borgia9879 2008-01-09 06:45 |
| #2 Perhaps, but now is not a good time for a potential civil war to erupt in Pakistan. |
| Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2008-01-09 05:54 |
| #1 This is good news. Pakistan survives on Islam and Islam alone. That is why those who benefit from it try to radicalize the population. The more they think about "We are all Muslims" the les they think "We are Sindhs" or "We are Baloks" and the lmess they think "Where is the money going?". The more they think "We have to make Jihad against teh Hindus, the Merricans, the Joooooos" the less they think in battling for independence. Split Pakistan and its former population will fall to its "natural levels" of militantism, who in some places can be quite high but never as high as the "enhanced level" brought by the people who have an interest in its existence. And the good news is that so many people in Sindh are saying "No to Pakistan" and that implicitly means "Our national reality is more important than adavancing Islam". |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-01-09 04:47 |