Pakistan tribal movement could become big insurgency

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL282413.htm

ISLAMABAD, Jan 14 (Reuters) - A tribal movement for greater political and economic rights in a strategic Pakistani province has the potential to explode into a major insurgency unless the government offers concessions, commentators say. snip

"We oppose cantonments, we oppose the federal government sending troops. We oppose colonial policies," he said.

Analysts say the nationalists have been further alienated from the political mainstream under the military-led government of President Pervez Musharraf since 1999.

Nationalists had shared power with civilian governments in the 1990s but were effectively sidelined after pro-military groups forged a coalition with an Islamic alliance to control the provincial assembly.

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1. So, is Pakistan going to explode before, or after, Saudi Arabia? nt

[jukes]

2. step on a mine

we get blowed up...stumble backward, step on another, we get blowed up...stumble si