Pakistan Tops List of Deteriorating World Conflicts
The World Health Organization, part of the United Nations, says that international crises can affect single or multiple areas within a country, a country as a whole, or neighboring countries and that refugees, diseases, military operations and illegal activities associated with crisis situations can serve as destabilizing forces in crisis affected countries.
Leading the list of countries suffering from a crisis is Pakistan, which is still reeling from the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto late last month. Bhutto had recently returned to Pakistan to challenge President Pervez Musharraf's rule by decree and was widely expected to win a substantial electoral victory in parliamentary elections scheduled for January 8. Those elections have now been postponed until February 18. Bhutto, who was Pakistan's most popular opposition leader, will be succeeded as head of the Pakistan People's Party by her son, currently a student at Oxford. The U.S. State Department has had a travel warning in effect for Pakistan since September of last year, warning U.S. citizens to avoid unnecessary travel to the South Asian nation because of continued unrest in response to Musharraf's tightening of his grip on power.
Also on the list is the African nation of Kenya, which exploded with violence after allegations of election tampering in the December 2007 presidential contest. AllAfrica.com says that Kenyan police are continually battling with rioters in the capital of Nairobi and that the city's businesses have been shut down. Famed Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has reportedly traveled to Kenya to help settle the dispute between the government of President Kibaki and opposition groups. Also in Africa, Chad and Algeria suffered from violence as suicide bombers struck Algiers and fighting between rebels and military forces in Chad increased. Eleven United Nations staff members were killed in the Algerian bombing. The Crisis Watch bulletin says that both Kenya and Pakistan have the potential for new or increased violence during January.
Sources: International Crisis Group web site, World Health Organization web site, Pakistan Elections web site, U.S. State Department web site, AllAfrica.com web site
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Post a CommentIt's amazing how the Pakistani people have learned to go from one day to the next without paying too much attention to current affairs. I live in Lahore, and during the emergency pretty much nothing changed. People still got up, went to work and sent the kids to school. Our only inconvenience was having our neighborhood cordoned off when BB was in town. Even with increased load shedding, increasing food prices, and higher incidences of crime, people just seem to go on with their lives.