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Conflict Grows Between Pakistan’s Taliban and Shi’ites

Juan Cole 12/29/2009

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Conflict Grows Between Pakistan's Taliban and Shi'ites – TIME

Omar Waraich argues that Monday’s horrific bombing in Karachi of a Shiite mourning procession signals a deepening Taliban/Shiite struggle in Pakistan.

Pakistani analysts also considered that the bombing, which killed 40 and sparked riots in the country’s largest city, may have been intended tactically to provoke sectarian conflict that would tie down the Pakistani army and impede its Waziristan campaign against the Taliban in the northwest.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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