Pakistan continues to spin out of control. Will it be a catalyst to something worse? It doesn’t help that Pakistan is a nuclear-armed country:

Within hours of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, angry mobs took to the streets, attacking police patrols and government buildings.

Amid fears of a full-blown civil war, four people were reported killed in Karachi, the southern port city, where thousands of protesters fired shots, blocked roads with burning cars and torched government buildings. Two people were shot dead in the eastern city of Lahore and four people were reported killed in smaller towns in the eastern province of Sindh, Ms Bhutto’s stronghold. A mobset fire to a train in Hyderabad, in Sindh, and police fired teargas into crowds in Peshawar, in Pakistan’s volatile northwest.

The mood in Ms Bhutto’s home town of Larkana, Sindh, was tense. Crowds set two banks on fire. In the central city of Multan some protesters fired shots into the air and many shouted slogans, including “Long live Bhutto” and “Musharraf is a dog”, in reference to the President.

Read it here:Civil war feared as angry mob demands head of Pervez Musharraf.