Pakistan on the Brink: Sectarian Strife Rampant
By Saeed Shah | McClatchy Newspapers
The bombing of a Shiite Muslim religious procession in Pakistan’s largest city Monday killed at least 30 people as U.S.-backed President Asif Ali Zardari warned of a “conspiracy” against the country’s democracy.
The fourth attack on Pakistan’s Shiite minority in recent days fueled fears that a sectarian conflict alongside the nuclear-armed country’s battle with the Pakistani Taliban and other Sunni Muslim extremist groups could topple Zardari’s fragile civilian government, which was elected last year after eight years of military-led rule.
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