Time: May. 14, 2007
Ethnic Tensions Fuel Pakistan Violence
By Ghulam Hasnain/Karachi
It will have come as little surprise to the 15 million residents of Karachi that their city is at the epicenter of Pakistan's latest upsurge in political violence. That's because the port city, Pakistan's largest metropolis, is a hotbed of ethnic and sectarian divisions always primed to explode on the streets...
"It could be naive to think that [Musharraf] could personally survive while the country slides into perdition. There are more cracks and fissures in it today than when he took power in 1999," said an editorial on Sunday in English-language Daily Times.
The Saturday violence has made Karachi residents wary of an all-out ethnic backlash. Says Faisal Edhi, whose family foundation run's Pakistan's ambulance service, "Everywhere there is fear. Suddenly people are afraid of each other."
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