The sins of Sind. (Pakistan)

The Economist (US) | June 9, 1990 | Copyright

IN PAKISTAN's steamy port of Karachi, soldiers are building bunkers on the main thoroughfares and crossroads, in the midst of the city's honking riot of chrome buses, multicoloured lorries, advertising hoardings and concrete-block architecture. It is something of an embarrassment to the prime minister, Miss Benazir Bhutto, that only the army seems able to restore peace: in a week of ethnic and political violence some 200 people were killed in Karachi and nearby Hyderabad, the two chief cities of Sind province. Miss Bhutto's followers used to blame the chronic violence of ...

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