Word: benazir
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...fact, the barbarians are well established in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city (pop. 10 million). The town is torn by conflict between rival factions of Mohajir Muslim migrants from India, between the terrorists and the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and between rival groups of Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims. Add to that a booming heroin trade, a kidnap-for-ransom industry and a mountain of weapons left over from the 1979-89 Afghanistan war. The result: 1,200 murders in the past year, making Karachi one of the deadliest cities in the world. (In New York City, where...
...staff members Jackie Van Landingham and Gary Durell, were on their way to work this morning in a van with U.S. markings when two gunmen jumped out of a yellow taxi, spraying the van with automatic gunfire. A third consulate employee in the van was wounded. Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said it was "part of a well-planned campaign of terrorism," possibly retaliation for the arrest in Pakistan last month of Ramzi Yousef, an Iraqi-born resident of Kuwait and a chief suspect in theWorld Trade Center bombingin New York. But State Department and other government sources tell TIME...
Soon after, the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, Najmuddin Sheikh, phoned Dr. Nafis Sadik, executive director of the U.N. Population Fund and one of the conference's main organizers. The Pakistani official had bad news: concerned about opposition at home, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was reconsidering her decision to attend the conference. Sadik knew that Bhutto's absence could be especially damaging. Not only was she to deliver a keynote speech, but she would also be the only female head of a Muslim country in attendance. Prime Ministers Tansu Ciller of Turkey and Begum Khaleda Zia of Bangladesh had both backed...
...Benazir Bhutto...
Islamabad -- A staunch advocate of family planning in her overpopulated homeland, Pakistan's Prime Minister, BENAZIR BHUTTO, appears not to be heeding her own advice. Although the steamy tropical summer has arrived, Bhutto, 40, has taken to wearing coats or heavy gowns in an effort to hide her eight-month pregnancy; the baby is supposed to "announce itself" later this month. Not surprisingly, Pakistan's favorite pun plays off Bhutto's party initials, P.P.P. (Pakistan People's Party): with three children already, she's known as the "Perpetually Pregnant...