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Sectarian Strife PAKISTAN Gunmen riddled Azam Tariq's car with bullets on the outskirts of Islamabad, killing the firebrand Sunni extremist member of Pakistan's National Assembly, three of his bodyguards and a driver. They left behind few clues, but turned up the heat on a long-simmering sectarian war between the country's majority Sunni community and the minority Shi'as. Thousands of Tariq's Sunni supporters rioted in Jhang, his hometown, and also in the normally placid capital, where they torched cars, ransacked markets and burned down a cinema - killing an employee - while police stood by and watched...
...sabotaged by a violent incident like the March 24 massacre of 24 Kashmiri Hindus by unidentified gunmen. Indeed, convincing the militants to hand over their Kalashnikovs is the key to peace in Kashmir?and it may prove impossible. Says Pervez Hoodbhoy, a South Asia expert at the Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad: "There are extremists who want to torpedo these negotiations...
...Musharraf has plainly given the religious groups more free rein in the campaign than he has allowed the two big parties that were his main rivals. In Jhang city, in Punjab province, Maulana Azam Tariq, leader of an outlawed extremist group called Sipah-e-Sahaba, which has been linked to numerous sectarian killings, is being allowed to run as an independent?despite election laws that disqualify any candidate who has criminal charges pending, or even those who did not earn a college degree. "It makes no sense that Benazir can't run in the election," says one Islamabad-based diplomat...
...hidden in mosques and schools. The regime may be marshaling its soldiers and artillery for a hellacious counterattack. "It's not very surprising, given the heavy U.S. bombings, that they pulled out of Mazar," says Rifaat Hussain, head of defense and strategic studies at Islamabad's Quaid-i-Azam University. "If the Taliban choose to fight a real battle, it will be over Kabul." The capital is the destination of choice for the 20,000 militants who have crossed the border from Pakistan to fight for the Taliban...
...moreover, are central to Pakistan's traditional foreign policy of keeping the Kashmir issue alive and urgent, which allows Islamabad to keep the pressure on India. "Pakistan wants to extend the olive branch and also carry a gun," says Rifaat Hussain, a defense analyst at Islamabad's Quaid-I-Azam University. "Why should India talk if the situation is normal...