Turning a fight into a war; Baluchistan.(Pakistan's wild western province)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: July 1, 2006 | Copyright information

Pakistan's aggressive policy towards its aggrieved west is causing chaos

THE castle belonging to Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti in Dera Bugti, a small town in Pakistan's western province of Baluchistan, stands like an epitaph to a lost battle. The walls have been ruined by cannon fire. Most of the local residents have fled. Those who remain in the town are mostly renegade Bugtis, of a clan opposed to Mr Bugti's God-like rule over the tribe. A few years ago, Mr Bugti drove them f...

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