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Bhutto Killing Roils Province, Spurring Call to Quit Pakistan
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 2008-01-09 |
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