Pakistan Headed for Civil War?
Charles Johnson
Fri Dec 28, 2007 at 9:22 am PST • Views: 239
Violence continues in several Pakistan cities, and at least two dozen people are now reported dead: Pakistan mourns Bhutto, unrest kills 23.
Furious supporters rampaged through several cities, in violence that left at least 23 dead less than two weeks before crucial elections.
Some wept, others chanted “Benazir is alive,” as the plain wood coffin was placed beside the grave of her father in the vast, white marble mausoleum in southern Sindh province near the Bhuttos’ ancestral home. …
Bhutto’s supporters ransacked banks, waged shootouts with police and burned trains and stations in a spasm of violence less than two weeks before parliamentary elections. The army was called in to help keep order in several cities in Sindh, said Ghulam Mohammed Mohtaram, the province’s home secretary, who said 23 people had died in unrest.
The Telegraph is considering the possibility of civil war — in a country with about 100 nuclear weapons.
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