Violence brings Pakistan full circle "But many believe Saturday's events have shown instead that Karachi may descend into the same pattern of ethnic strife that pitted the MQM's main support group against the others from 1986 to 1996. " Internal disintegration Pakistan is by no means a pacified nation. In many places, such as Balochistan, the state does not hold a monopoly of force. We should remember that it took a long time for the unitary state to assert itself in European nations. It now has to be seen whether this process will be accelerated or rather obstructed by higher levels of scale (technology, modern communications etc.) in today's developing nations.