Word: bhutto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Facing widespread disorders and opposition demands for his resignation, Bhutto clamped martial law on Karachi, Hyderabad and Lahore, three of Pakistan's largest cities. A round-the-clock curfew was in effect there and in Lyallpur and troops had orders to shoot to kill all violators. The government's get-tough tactics seemed only to infuriate its opponents-and trouble its supporters...
...Zulfikar All Bhutto...
Pakistan's Prime Minister clung desperately to power last week, firmly convinced that his own time to fade had not yet come. But Bhutto's troubled and unhappy nation was plunged into its worst political crisis since the 1971 civil war, which ended in the breakaway of its eastern sector to become the independent country of Bangladesh...
...opposition-sponsored general strike demanding Bhutto's resignation shut down business and industry in Rawalpindi and the capital of Islamabad. Air transportation was intermittent and road traffic virtually at a standstill as opponents of the government blocked intersections and pulled people from bicycles on their way to work. Even within government ranks, opposition began to surface. Pakistan's ambassadors to Greece and Spain, both retired military officers, resigned in protest. Air Marshal Abdur Rahim Khan, who had been Ambassador to Spain, warned that Bhutto could provoke "a true civil war." In Washington the State Department stopped...
Nawabzada Khan, the leader of the National Alliance, who was among those arrested yesterday, has tried to rally support among army generals, and the National Alliance has asked the army not to follow Bhutto's orders during the upcoming demonstration...