Word: farooq
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amjad Farooq Alvi, 26, and Basit Farooq Alvi, 19, a pair of self-taught computer experts, are brothers who were raised in a middle-class suburb of Lahore. Amjad is the proprietor of the Brain computer shop. By all accounts he is the stronger programmer. After graduating from Punjab University with a degree in physics, he began devouring electronics texts and teaching himself the rudiments of computer repair and programming. For several years, he earned a living by fixing personal computers. By 1985 he had switched to programming, producing customized software that was, to his dismay, copied and used without...
...action would lead to the type of bloody confrontation that claimed more than 600 lives in Amritsar. The troops had been sent to Jammu and Kashmir to keep the peace as the state government was being rocked by New Delhi's ouster of the freely elected Chief Minister, Farooq Abdullah. The beneficiary, and undoubted instigator, of the incident was Mrs. Gandhi and her Hindu-dominated Congress (I) Party...
...Maulvi Farooq, an Islamic zealot whose followers are fervent admirers of Pakistan. Mrs. Gandhi has long feared secessionist tendencies in the strategic state, where Muslims outnumber Hindus by 3.9 million to 1.8 million. The Prime Minister's anger increased when Abdullah joined with politicians from other states whose intent was to form an anti-Gandhi alliance for the national elections that she must call by January...
...Farooq Hassan Karachi