Word: agha
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CCRR member Kenneth Russell said Sullivan rejected the group's president, Gul Agha, because he recently moved to New Haven and is no longer an official Cambridge resident. Sullivan also rejected Harvey Sapolsky, an MIT professor of public policy. Russell said that Wise, the CCRR's third nominee, was "a fine and logical choice," but that his group would have preferred Agha...
...DIED. Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, 63, former Pakistani military strongman who presided over the 1971 breakup of Pakistan and the country's humiliating defeat in war by India; of an internal hemorrhage; in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Yahya seized power in 1969, while commander in chief of the armed forces, promising a quick return to democratic rule. But when East Pakistan's Sheik Mujibur Rahman won the 1970 national election and demanded broad autonomy for the long neglected eastern wing of the country, Yahya refused to yield power; Sheik Mujibur was arrested and civil war broke out. Yahya...
Even as Soviet troops were crushing the Muslim rebellion in Afghanistan, the ministers in Islamabad set up a committee -made up of the organization's Tunisian secretary-general Habib Chatti, Iran's Ghotbzadeh and Pakistan's foreign affairs adviser Agha Shahi-to seek a "comprehensive solution" to the crisis through consultations with the concerned parties. The initiative, whose success seems problematical, reflected the delegates' desire for concrete action after the tough language of the earlier conference had failed to produce any results...
...rose to ridicule the Soviet line. Asked Papua-New Guinea's ambassador, Paulias N. Matane: "Should we accept the argument, then, that President Amin [of Afghanistan] invited the Soviet troops to overthrow his own government and eventually kill him? I find that hard to believe." Pakistan's Agha Shahi, who flew in to co-sponsor the anti-Soviet resolution, was more blunt: "A nonexistent threat of an invasion [is] obviously being advanced to justify the large-scale dispatch of Soviet troops into Afghanistan...
...visit to Washington two weeks ago, Pakistan's senior foreign affairs adviser, Agha Shahi, asked the U.S. for antitank missiles, air defense missiles, combat tanks, field artillery for its ground forces and transport aircraft for its air force. This new equipment is intended to supplement the 60 French Mirage III and Mirage 5 fighters, the 700 Chinese T-59 tanks and the assorted British, Soviet, Swedish and Argentine weapons. Islamabad purchased them-in large part with Saudi Arabian money-after Washington began limiting arms aid to Pakistan in 1965 because American weapons had been used by both sides...