Despite her loyalty to the Sindhi community, Sonia continues to have mixed feelings about her native land.

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Tariq Kamal was a reporter with a Sindhi language daily published in Karachi.

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In turf wars over neighbourhoods, they attack each other's activists and ordinary folk alike. (This week indiscriminate firing on a Sindhi rally killed 11 people.) When deaths exceed a handful a day, the commercial capital grinds to a halt.

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