Word: awami
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first democratically elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. Both these claims should be taken with a grain of salt. First, Mr. Bhutto refused to recognize the outcome of the Pakistan General Elections held in 1970. He persuaded the then General of Pakistan not to transfer power to the Awami League Party of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) which had clearly won the elections. This led to a genocide in which three million innocent East Pakistanis were massacred and the nation of Bangladesh was born. (In fact, some of Ms. Bhutto's close friends, for example, the Galbraiths, recall that she was, during...
...quite work out that way. At least twelve people were killed and 400 arrested last week amid blatant vote rigging, intimidation and violence, most of it committed by supporters of Ershad's Jatiya Party. At week's end the official count gave Jatiya 82 seats and the opposition Awami League and its coalition partners 71 seats. But the results in another 100 districts were in dispute...
...military leaders hoped they could create a province loyal to be whims of the western, almost entirely Moslem, portion of the nation. In democratic elections held the previous December the people of East Pakistan had cast ballots over whelmingly in favor of a regional parts. Shark Mupbar Rahman's Awami league, which promised to demand what amounted to home rule...