Okay, that's funny.
Here we have politics in a Pakistani province. It's about funny and almost scary but not really endy, it seems to be localized in one province.
Rioting broke out between rival parties Biryani Ittehad-Sindhi [BI(S)] group and Pakistan Pulao Party (PPP)

Why were they fighting?
Rice.
The Biryani Ittehad party likes, you guessed it, Biryani rice, the Pulao likes, right again, Pulao rice.
Apparently they're fighting over which is more Muslim.
The fighting happened at a place that served biryani rice.
It gets funnier
scared customers tried to leave, but were stopped by the unknown men who blockaded the door with the handis. (handis are little pots used to cook rice V)
...one guy had his priorities right
“I saw one man scarfing down his plate of Bombay biryani under his table, even as children were crying in fear
...
and the grand finish

Early this month, several newspapers ran print ads in which pulao was compared to paella and risotto – so-called ‘kafir’ dishes – while biryani was extolled as the food of devout Muslims. The newspapers eventually had to pull off the ads after demonstrations were held outside their offices by Pakistan Pulao Party members. “It was an insult to a sophisticated dish. Pulao doesn’t make you belch crudely like biryani,” said a PPP worker at the demonstration. “Calling it ‘kafir’ is just hitting below the belt.”


To get that province really riled up, run an ad about how biryani rice was given to the Persians by the Jews when they fled from Babylonian captivity so it's not a kafr dish but Jooooooooooooo-food.
The funniest part is that the Persians weren't Muslim when they gave either rice to Pakistan so neither should be considered "more Muslim".

I'm surprised Israel hasn't perfected a method of causing rioting and revolution in Muslim countries using this method. It's hard to get all invasiony when your young men are fighting each other over important stuff like rice.

Unless..... this is a test op. In which case I should probably shut up.

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