ABSTRACT
In its brief history of 64 years, Pakistan has already faced four prominent insurgent conflicts: Bengali nationalist-separatist rebellion in East Pakistan (1971), low-intensity Baloch nationalist insurgency (1948–present) with heightened conflict between 1974 and 1977, Muhajir nationalist insurgency in Karachi (1990–9), and now the Pakistani Taliban insurgency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan (FATA) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) (2001–present). In addition, Pakistan faces some militant separatism in Sindh and Gilgit-Baltistan. Out of these four, the most successful movement was that of the Bengali nationalists who were able to secure a separate homeland for themselves at the end of the civil war.
