Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Pakistan's Ethnic Fault Line -- Selig S. Harrison

For centuries, Pashtuns living in the mountainous borderlands of Pakistan and Afghanistan have fought to keep out invading Punjabi plainsmen. So sending Punjabi soldiers into Pashtun territory to fight jihadists pushes the country ever closer to an ethnically defined civil war, strengthening Pashtun sentiment for an independent "Pashtunistan" that would embrace 41 million people in big chunks of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Selig S. Harrison - The Fault Line Between Pashtuns and Punjabis ...
The real conflicts in Pakistan rumble along ethnic fault lines

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