No end in sight to the rebellion
PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, Pakistan's president, has expressed regret at bombing ethnic-Pushtun tribal areas to attack armed extremists. He has shown no such remorse for doing the same in Baluchistan. And few Baluchis expect their new government to end the army's campaign against a nationalist insurgency.
Mohammed Hussain, a 70-year-old Marri tribesman, has lived with his family in a straw hut outside Dera Murad Jamali for two years, since the Pakistani army killed his livestock and looted and destroyed his house. He is one of 50,000-60,000 refugees from the Bugti and Marri tribes who have fled the bombardment of their mountain homes and ...