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2007-12-28 India-Pakistan

Workers burn to death as riot toll hits 32

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Posted by tipper 2007-12-28 11:09|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
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#1 Well...doesn't this all make sense.

Posted by tu3031 2007-12-28 11:48|| 2007-12-28 11:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, it kinda does. The riot is the objective, the means and objects of destruction don't matter. Paks don't have a monopoly in that regard, but they surely give it their best.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-12-28 11:55|| 2007-12-28 11:55|| Front Page Top

#3 It's like winning (or losing) a big bakitball game.

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-12-28 11:58|| 2007-12-28 11:58|| Front Page Top

#4 'Siddiqi said rioters also burnt down a BMW car showroom and ransacked a medicine factory and a private hospital in the same area of the city, Pakistan's largest and the economic hub of the country.'

...but soon to resemble the rest of the shithole called Pakistan, courtesy of Mindless Morons (TM).

Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-12-28 12:02|| 2007-12-28 12:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Siddiqi said rioters also burnt down a BMW car showroom and ransacked a medicine factory and a private hospital in the same area of the city,

It is well known that Morticia was killed by BMW agents because she had picked a Mercedes as her car.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-12-28 12:26|| 2007-12-28 12:26|| Front Page Top

#6 ...and she did die in a hospital. Probably had some medicine before she croaked too.

Posted by tu3031 2007-12-28 12:29|| 2007-12-28 12:29|| Front Page Top

#7 She did have some medicine in hospital. The medicine for her heart condition.

What do you mean, "what heart condition?" *Ev'ryone* knew about it. It was only a matter of time. One unexpected noise and it was lights out for Benazir.

Posted by Seafarious 2007-12-28 12:35|| 2007-12-28 12:35|| Front Page Top

#8 I have to wonder how much of this is inter-ethnic, i.e. Sindhi vs Punjabis, Mohajirs, et al. I think what many people don't realize is that India and Pakistan are agglomerations of nations that used to be independent before the Brits came along. The kinds of riots you get there aren't that different from what you get in African countries similarly cobbled together. They aren't fighting against people for ideological reasons - they're essentially fighting against foreigners with whom they have been locked in a room for hundreds of years.

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