Word: bhatti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...internal free-for-all that followed Pakistan's birth as a nation, Kassim and Abdullah Bhatti, sons of two fisherman brothers, built up a gold-smuggling empire so vast that prices on the Karachi bullion exchange fluctuated whenever the Bhattis brought in a shipment. Commanding a fleet of twelve ships that rendezvoused with contraband-carrying vessels in the Arabian Sea, and using new Chevrolets that easily outran customs officials' Jeeps on Pakistan's unpaved roads, the first cousins became rich men about town. Paunchy Kassim acquired a winning stable of 17 race horses and a taste...
When the army took over power in Pakistan last October, one of its first acts was to arrest the Bhatti boys. In underwater caves near Karachi, navy frogmen found an incredible two tons of Bhatti gold. Abdullah, closemouthed on the stand but believed to be the brains of the operation, has already been sentenced to life imprisonment. Then Playboy Kassim went on trial-and talked...