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Article: Pakistan: containing violence amid growing unrest.
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- MEED Middle East Economic Digest
- Article date:
- December 4, 1992
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PAKISTAN'S political conflicts have burst into the open with street demonstrations and a clamp down on the opposition by security forces. The government and the opposition have pledged to escalate their actions, raising fears of political instability.
Pakistan People's Party leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has urged supporters to protest at what she calls the government's anti-democratic rule. Recently, she has staged several rallies to make a show of popular support for her allegation that the 1990 elections, which ousted her from government and brought to power Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, were rigged. On 18 November, a planned 10-mile march from ...