Pucca Qila Operation (English Wikipedia)

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  • Singh, Surendra (2003). Politics of Regionalism in Pakistan: A Study of Sind Province. Kalinga Publications. ISBN 978-81-87644-46-0.
  • Siddiqi, Farhan Hanif (2012). The Politics of Ethnicity in Pakistan: The Baloch, Sindhi and Mohajir Ethnic Movements. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-68614-3.
  • Alagappa, Muthiah (2001). Coercion and Governance: The Declining Political Role of the Military in Asia. Stanford University Press. p. 400. ISBN 978-0-8047-4227-6.
  • Ayres, Alyssa (2009-07-23). Speaking Like a State: Language and Nationalism in Pakistan. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-51931-1.
  • Verkaaik, Oskar (2018-06-05). Migrants and Militants: Fun and Urban Violence in Pakistan. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-18771-6.
  • Sprague, Stanley B. (2020-10-29). Pakistan Since Independence: A History, 1947 to Today. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-8151-1.
  • Jalālzī, Mūsá K̲h̲ān (2002). The Crisis of State and Security in Pakistan. Dua Publications.
  • Das, Suranjan (2001). Kashmir and Sindh: Nation-building, Ethnicity and Regional Politics in South Asia. Anthem Press. p. 134. ISBN 978-1-898855-87-3. On 27 May 1990, an apparently peaceful demonstration of Muhajir women and children in Hyderabad to demand restoration of the water supply was brutally crushed by the Sindh government police. This in turn incited Muhajir violence against Sindhis living in Karachi.
  • Tambiah, Stanley J. (2023-04-28). Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia. University of California Press. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-520-91819-1. It is significant that on May 27, the police were deployed and ready to deal with the procession in the Fort area and other demonstrations else- where. For example, three jeeps carrying policemen drove at great speed into the Fort procession, making the people give way. And, apparently the women, when challenged to stop, dared the police to open fire, "because we are carrying the Holy Quran on our heads." The police--one policeman is reported to have shouted, "They are prostitutes" did open fire, causing a stampede, the shrieking women and children rushing into the Abdul Wahab Shah Jilani Shrine for shelter and the men running toward Station Road. 24 Ambulances arrived and carried off the dead and the wounded to nearby hospitals, first to Bhitai Hospital-which had only "one small operation theatre," so that the surgeons were obliged to operate in the corridors and then to the St. Elizabeth and Mohammadi hospitals. All these frenzied events were taking place to the deafening noise of voices over the loudspeakers installed in various mosques, screaming, "Come out of your homes, Muhajirs are being killed"; "Please arrange cots and bedding for the injured"; "Rush to the hospitals and donate blood." In response, "volunteers put up shamianas [tents] in the hospital compound, while women queued to donate blood."
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  • Shafqat, Saeed (2019-08-16). Civil-military Relations In Pakistan: From Zufikar Ali Bhutto To Benazir Bhutto. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-72337-7. The point of contention between Benazir Bhutto government and the military was the manner and the timing of the government's operation. The Sindh government, under clearance from the federal government launched an operation to capture the terrorists who were hiding in the Pucca Qila. The timing was such that the COAS General Mirza Aslam Beg was on a tour abroad, the corps commander of Sindh was on a visit to border areas, while the general officer commanding (GOC) was also abroad. So the action was taken at a time when the military top brass was not available, embarrassed Benazir Bhutto Government as it showed lack of communication between the military and police. A senior police officer, who was involved in the operation told the author that the provincial police had established that the area was a den of terrorists and with a cache of illegal weapons. He said that the operation was larger in scale than the police strength that was available in Hyderabad could handle, and pointed out with some degree of frustration that the police was not given a free hand to run it. The ISI got involved quickly and Army Rangers who were deployed in the city provided protection to the culprits instead of supporting the police action. Consequently the incident was now seen as an ethnic conflict, in which the provincial police, who were predominantly Sindhi were portrayed as massacring the Mohajirs. Later on, upon return from the foreign visit, General Beg, visited the affected areas of Hyderabad and was given a heros welcome, with slogans of "impose martial law, remove Benazir Bhutto."

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