Kirstie Stofanik
April 3rd
10:08
The assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto, a Sindhi, has exacerbated ethnic tension in multilingual and multiethnic Pakistan. The Government is now trying to divide the nation on linguistic basis in order to supposedly put the assassination of Bhutto on the backburner. Shahid Shah is a Karachi-based journalist who traveled around the Sindhi province to report the violence that followed Bhutto's assassination. His view differs in many ways. He feels that the Sindhi people are being looked at in the wrong instead of victims as they should be seen. Other ethnic societies have allowed commercials displaying negative things about the Sindhi people and putting them to blame even though their own president was assassinated. The government is allowing the Sindhi people to be blamed while trying to fix the problem by dividing the country.
Rabbani said the regime must desist from dividing the people otherwise the federation may face dire consequences. I would say I have to agree with Rabbani. I feel that although the country can be divided if that were to happen then there would still be ethnic problems from country to country. This is a problem that needs to be helped in other ways because I feel that dividing these people will only help for a little while and not actually resolve the tension.
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