Pakistan is the botched result of seven weeks of bad planning by Sir Cyril Radcliffe in 1947 in an effort to separate warring Muslims from the Hindus. The hastily created border caused instant riots and violence, sending 6 million people from each region fleeing across the new border. It is estimated that up to a million people were killed. Today, with 60 million Muslims in India and more than 10 million Hindus in Pakistan, there is little hope for peace. Demonstrations often get ugly in Karachi and Hyderabad, where Sindhis and immigrant groups in Karachi and Hyderabad duke it out. Between January 1990 and October 1992, Pakistan-trained militants killed 1,585 men and women, including 981 Muslims, 218 Hindus, 23 Sikhs and 363 security men. In three years, over 7,000 Kalashnikov rifles, 400 machine guns, 400 rocket launchers, 1,000 rockets, 7,000 grenades, 2,000 pistols and revolvers, and thousands of mines were seized. One of the keys to staying alive in heavily armed areas is to not bring a knife to a gunfight. If you visit Pakistan, you might want to bring your own army.
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