Pakistani Separatists Tear Gassed by Police
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KARACHI, Pakistan — Police fired tear gas Thursday at students protesting the arrest of a politician demanding a separate homeland in Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s home province of Sind.
Police said four people were arrested for rioting in Karachi, capital of Sind province, where G. M. Syed, 87, was placed under house arrest Wednesday, the first political detainee of Bhutto’s 10-month-old government.
Syed, leader of the Jiye Sind Party that demands a separate “Sindhudesh” homeland, was arrested after a protest on Oct. 1 when 3,000 of his followers took over Sukkur airport in northern Sind and burned the Pakistan flag.
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