Word: agha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disintegrating. The Bengali-dominated East, separated by 1,000 miles of India from the less populous but long-dominant West, was moving toward autonomy, if not outright independence. Civil war loomed. The East's 75 million people had been under martial law since 1969. Now Pakistani President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan's troops, most of them Punjabis from the West who were offended by the East's separatist demands, went on a murderous rampage. Bengali refugees began streaming into India, eventually numbering some 8 million. India's Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, protesting that the refugees were...
...Pakistan's Ambassador Agha Hilaly said that he had "a message" for me relating to Yahya's trip. I invited Hilaly to the White House the next day, where in my office a few minutes after 6 p.m. he produced an envelope containing a handwritten missive on white, blue-lined paper which had been carried to him by hand, Yahya not trusting the security of cable communications. (This was to be the form for all messages through the Pakistani channel.) Hilaly said he was not authorized to leave the document with...
...loan was from B.C.C.I. and a subsidiary. Lance said he used it last January to pay off his celebrated $3.4 million loan from the First National Bank of Chicago, and that was the only point on which he was definite. The latest loan, he said, was arranged by Agha Hassan Abedi, an energetic Pakistani who heads B.C.C.I. Collateral? None. Documents? Well, no, though Lance's lawyer, Robert Altman, says some are being drawn...
Dealing with Armand and Agha and Jimmy...
...fastest growing banks in Britain, BCCI has assets of more than $2 billion, much of it from Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The bank was founded in 1972 by innovative, hard-driving Agha Hasan Abedi, who left his native Pakistan five years ago, when the government nationalized banking. It was Abedi who got Lance together with Ghaith...