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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...
...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...