Comments on: Bhutto, Blasts, and Bellydances http://registan.net/index.php/2007/10/25/bhutto-blasts-and-bellydances/ All Central Asia, All The Time Fri, 25 May 2012 03:15:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: tequila http://registan.net/index.php/2007/10/25/bhutto-blasts-and-bellydances/comment-page-1/#comment-375761 tequila Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:18:15 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2007/10/25/bhutto-blasts-and-bellydances/#comment-375761 Well, to be fair Karachi has always been at the center of massive political violence in Pakistan --- Pashtun vs Mohajir vs Sindhi, with a leavening of Shi'i vs Sunni in the 1980s. AFAIK Karachi's murder rate is still lower now than it was back in the heyday of MQM ultraviolence during the '80s and early 1990s. Also, wasn't the Baloch insurgency much stronger during its initial uprising in the 1970s? I remember reading about massive pitched battles between Baloch and the Army involving thousands of combatants and attack helicopters. Nothing that bad now. Well, to be fair Karachi has always been at the center of massive political violence in Pakistan — Pashtun vs Mohajir vs Sindhi, with a leavening of Shi’i vs Sunni in the 1980s. AFAIK Karachi’s murder rate is still lower now than it was back in the heyday of MQM ultraviolence during the ’80s and early 1990s.

Also, wasn’t the Baloch insurgency much stronger during its initial uprising in the 1970s? I remember reading about massive pitched battles between Baloch and the Army involving thousands of combatants and attack helicopters. Nothing that bad now.

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