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Bahrain

Bahrain

Bahrain's Foreign Police Add to Tension

NOVANEWS   Posted By: Sammi Ibrahem Chair of West Midlands PSC   By ALEX DELMAR-MORGAN In Manama, Bahrain, and TOM WRIGHT in Islamabad, PakistanBahrain's ruling family is moving to shore up its security forces with more recruits from Pakistan, in a move that risks further stoking nationalist and sectarian tensions in the Persian Gulf state. Joseph Eid/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Pakistani nationals took refuge at a Pakistan Club in the Bahrain's capital Manama, March 19, 2011.   The Al Khalifa family, Sunni Muslims who rule over a Shiite-majority population, have long relied on recruits from Sunni-majority countries such as Pakistan, Jordan and Yemen to fill the ranks of their police forces. As antigovernment protests have flared in Bahra...