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Growing instability, Islamist threat in nuclear Pakistan alarms West Recent violence in Karachi is putting new strains on Pakistan's coalition government, raising new fears among U.S. and Western intelligence agencies about an Islamist takeover of the nuclear-armed Southwest Asian state. Tensions are growing between government coalition partners, the Pashtun-based Awami National Party (ANP) and the Urdu-speaking Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM). The Pakistan People's Party (PPP)-led government is under fire by critics for its failure to take action and for allegedly protecting "criminals" engaged in violence in the city. Some are calling for military intervention in the government to help stem the violence. One MQM representative was quoted on Pakistan television as saying the ANP patronized criminals, while an ANP official accused the MQM of rigging elections and killing Pashtuns. The ANP official called for Army intervention to control violence in the city, and said an Army operation would expose the MQM's "criminal" activities. Reports from Pakistan also said MQM officials threaten to pull out of the government coalition, but delayed the decision after a meeting with President Asif Ali Zadari. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
