March 26, 1999

Violence Recedes at U. of Karachi, but Pakistani Politics Persists

By MARION LLOYD

Armed security guards and a ban on extracurricular activities have halted student attacks

The campus of the University of Karachi used to be the killing field of Pakistani student politics. It was here that rival parties waged a war of attrition through their affiliated student wings.

That's no longer the case. The permanent presence of hundreds of armed troops in and around the campus has seen to that.

But the student

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