Word: farooq
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...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
...serious than a state of emergency or a state of siege, and more comprehensive than a suspension of habeas corpus or an imposition of preventive detention. It is both a political and a psychological device, which implies that authority begins at the trigger of a gun. In effect, says Farooq Hassan, a Pakistani legal scholar now teaching at American University in Washington, B.C., "martial law is a political weapon to show the public that, no matter how unpopular the regime in power, it still has the support of the army...
...stories match perfectly on what happened after that. The ladies claim they were manhandled. The cops say they were not. At any rate, the three ended up in the squad car en route to police headquarters. There they were quickly identified as 1) Mrs. Shafia Farooq, wife of the second secretary to Pakistan's U.N. delegation, 2) Mrs. Rahat Said Chhatari, wife of another Pakistan delegate, 3) Nadira, her daughter. All three had traveled in from the Farooq home in nearby Larchmont for an afternoon of quiet shopping. Amid profuse apologies, the police explained their mistake. Snapped Mrs. Chhatari...