Word: bhutto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto '73 is reportedly under house arrest in Islamabad after being deposed in a surprise move by Pakistan's president early yesterday...
Peter W. Galbraith '73, a close friend of Bhutto, said she told him in a telephone conversation yesterday morning that the army had surrounded her home after President Ghulam Ishaq Khan legally dissolved her democratically elected government...
...business will be to secure the release of Aung San Suu Kyi. She alone has the moral stature to press for the end to authoritarian rule and to halt the political factionalism that brought the military to power 28 years ago. Like the Philippines' Corazon Aquino, Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto and Nicaragua's Violeta Chamorro, Aung San Suu Kyi's moral authority stems from family history and political tragedy: her father, Aung San, was a national hero who was assassinated in 1947, on the eve of Burma's independence from Britain. But unlike some of the others, who stepped into...
...India is indulging in genocide," charged Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto last week. She had just returned from a week-long tour of eight Middle Eastern countries, where she was seeking support for the Kashmiris' right to self-determination. While some Kashmiri militants favor an independent state of their own, Bhutto rejected that idea as "extremely dangerous." Kashmir's freedom, she insisted, was "the freedom to join Pakistan." In the process, she said, armed conflict with India could not be ruled out, "but we do not believe war is inevitable...
...state's 7 million people -- 65% of them Muslim. There India faces a bloody insurgency and a runaway mass movement for secession that is joined even by local police and civil servants. New Delhi accuses Pakistan of arming and training the rebels. Islamabad denies the charge, but the Bhutto government openly gives its political support to the rebellion...