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Destabilizing Baluchistan, Fracturing Pakistan -- Part I

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"Managed Chaos" is the proper term to describe the tensions in NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan and the border zones of Pakistan. Afghanistan and Pakistan, which are now being described by the Pentagon and NATO as the same front in the very same war, are tied to the Iranian border province of Sistan and Baluchistan or Sistan-Baluchistan. It is with the tenure of George W. Bush Jr. and his administration that Sistan-Baluchistan, with emphases on "Baluchistan" begun getting international attention through the ignition of a series of attacks inside the Iranian border with Pakistan by a group originally calling itself the "Army of God" or Jundallah in Arabic.

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