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Conflicted Karachi
by Nadeem F. Paracha on 08 26th, 2010
Conflict and violence in Karachi has always had its own distinct dynamics, requiring the state and the government of the time to chalk out contingency strategies and security arrangements that are largely customised to suite these exclusive dynamics.
Though considered to be one of the most crime-infested cities of South Asia, Karachi has baffled a number of political pundits by remaining comparatively stable in the last decade or so especially in the context of the rise in the number of gruesome terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists in the Punjab and the Khyber-Pukhtunkhwa.
In this regard at least, so far Karachi (and rest of the Sindh province) has somehow managed to escape the ubiquitous madness of both extremist terrorism.
Karachi also remains to be Pakistans most overtly secular city.
But why does a city with a startling sectarian, religious and ethnic diversity is able to ward off violence associated with religious extremism but collapses when it comes to ethnic tensions?
http://blog.dawn.com/2010/08/26/conflicting-karachi/
by Nadeem F. Paracha on 08 26th, 2010
Conflict and violence in Karachi has always had its own distinct dynamics, requiring the state and the government of the time to chalk out contingency strategies and security arrangements that are largely customised to suite these exclusive dynamics.
Though considered to be one of the most crime-infested cities of South Asia, Karachi has baffled a number of political pundits by remaining comparatively stable in the last decade or so especially in the context of the rise in the number of gruesome terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists in the Punjab and the Khyber-Pukhtunkhwa.
In this regard at least, so far Karachi (and rest of the Sindh province) has somehow managed to escape the ubiquitous madness of both extremist terrorism.
Karachi also remains to be Pakistans most overtly secular city.
But why does a city with a startling sectarian, religious and ethnic diversity is able to ward off violence associated with religious extremism but collapses when it comes to ethnic tensions?
http://blog.dawn.com/2010/08/26/conflicting-karachi/