Pakistan has a lot more to lose than we do. Killing each other. The violence that pervades Pakistan and scares foreigners usually is aimed not at Americans but inward. Shiite Muslims in Pakistan, backed by Iran, battle regularly with Sunni Muslims. The Mujahir community of Indian families who settled in Karachi in 1947 is at war with families of original provincial residents.
Students settle campus differences with automatic weapons.
Terrorist insurgents operate in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Kasi hails from Baluchistan, an area along the Afghan border torn by tribal rivalries. Investigators suspect that the Texas oilmen's killers had ties to Afghan fundamentalist groups who sheltered Kasi. Two years ago, in a crime almost identical to last week's ambush, two employees with the U.S. Consulate in Karachi were shot to death at a traffic light. Their unsolved killings occurred only a month after American and Pakistani agents captured Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York.