QUETTA, PakistanâMobs burned shops, banks and buses in a second day of rioting over the killing of a top tribal chief by Pakistani troops, raising fears that a decades-old conflict in the countryâs volatile southwest could widen.
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told Pakistani television that Nawab Akbar Bugtiâs death Saturday was âthe darkest chapter in Pakistanâs history.â
Police arrested 450 people for rioting, but the violence spread from Baluchistan province into neighboring Sindh province, where ethnic Baluchis burned tires in Pakistanâs largest city, Karachi.
Political leaders and analysts feared the killing of Bugti, an urbane former interior minister who led a decades-long violent campaign for greater rights for ethnic Baluch tribespeople, could influence more young Pakistanis to take up militancy.
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told Pakistani television that Nawab Akbar Bugtiâs death Saturday was âthe darkest chapter in Pakistanâs history.â
Police arrested 450 people for rioting, but the violence spread from Baluchistan province into neighboring Sindh province, where ethnic Baluchis burned tires in Pakistanâs largest city, Karachi.
Political leaders and analysts feared the killing of Bugti, an urbane former interior minister who led a decades-long violent campaign for greater rights for ethnic Baluch tribespeople, could influence more young Pakistanis to take up militancy.