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...violence erupted early last month when 32-year-old Sunni police trainee constable Akbar Niazi wired himself with explosives and blew up the Haideri mosque, killing himself and more than 24 Shi'ites. Next to die was radical Sunni Muslim cleric Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, 51, who was gunned down on May 30 while driving to his Binori Town mosque and seminary. The following day, a suicide bomber set off a blast that shattered the dome of the Shi'ite Ali Reza mosque, killing...
...Strife stemming from ancient religious rivalry is depressingly familiar to Pakistan. Human-rights activists say that since the mid-'80s, more than 4,000 people have been killed in Sunni-Shi'ite feuds. Last year, for example, Sunni and Shi'ite gunmen marked each other's doctors and lawyers for assassination. President Pervez Musharraf waved off calls for the federal government to step in to curtail further bloodshed, saying he would refrain from "panic reactions." Fearing more attacks, a banker says he won't let his boys attend Friday sermons: "It's better to miss your prayers than to lose...
...place. Some 50,000 people died during Sierra Leone's conflict. City Under Siege PAKISTAN A general strike brought Karachi to a standstill. It was called by the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, a six-party religious alliance, to protest sectarian violence. Days earlier, a suicide bombing at a Shi'ite mosque in the city killed 23, shortly after the assassination of prominent Sunni cleric Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai. Less Than Total Recall VENEZUELA President Hugo Chávez declared himself ready to face a recall vote after the National Electoral Council confirmed that opponents had gathered more than the 2.4 million...
...Sadr seems almost to be courting death at U.S. hands, knowing that it, more than anything else, would spark a broad Shi'ite insurgency. His followers call him "the living shahid," or martyr, according to Fatah al-Sheikh, editor of the pro--al-Sadr newspaper Ishraqatal Sadr. If the Americans ever do kill al-Sadr, al-Sheikh says, they will be faced with a "revolution that will never end." Al-Sadr's supporters, he adds, "will kill all Americans, civilians or otherwise...
...peace with the U.S. "I frankly doubt we can come to an agreement," says Sheik Faad al-Turfi. "They came here as occupiers. They kill Iraqis, rape our women and steal our riches." With an air of exhaustion, he also dismisses the claims of al-Sadr's Shi'ite critics, like Sheik Bhafer al-Qaisi, a representative of Ayatullah Sistani's who told TIME last week that al-Sadr was purposely trying to provoke an attack on the Shi'ite shrines to trigger a nationwide revolt. "We want to defend the shrines," says al-Turfi, "not destroy them...