Word: benazir
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nonetheless, for most of the women who had come from far corners of the earth to express their solidarity, even a damp sojourn under a heavy official hand proved exhilarating. If Clinton did not impress a delegate, perhaps Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto did, or Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, who appeared in a specially recorded videotape that was smuggled out of Rangoon...
...easy to downplay the global nature of the problem and focus on just one place. Benazir Bhutto won high praise for using her podium time in Beijing to criticize the Chinese treatment of women. What neither she nor the press mentioned is that in Pakistan, female rape victims are subject to prison sentences for "adultery." Bhutto once promised to end this stunningly malicious practice, but backed off rather than offend the local mullahs...
Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto '73 has given a $100,000 permanent endowment to the Center for Islamic Studies at Harvard Law School (HLS), the Law School news office said yesterday...
President Clinton today assuredPakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhuttothat he will try to ease sanctions against her country. In a White House meeting,Bhuttocomplained to Clinton that her government has paid the U.S. more than $600 million for a shipment of fighter jets, both of which the U.S. kept after Pakistan developed anuclear weaponscapability. Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.), chief sponsor of the sanctions, insists that Congress must hold firm because Pakistan has nuclear bombs. Bhutto maintains that Pakistan has not built any nuclear weapons...
...before the accused mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was himself arrested in Pakistan and quickly extradited to the U.S. The six were suspected of conspiring with Yousef in his skein of terrorist plots, but only after they had been questioned last week did Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto learn that she too had been a target of the terrorists...