Word: haq
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq of Pakistan once remarked that being the friend of the U.S. is like living on the banks of a great river: the soil is wonderfully fertile and there are many other benefits, but every four years or eight years, the river, flooded by storms that are too far away to be seen, changes its course, and you are left in a desert, all alone. These irrational changes, of course, produced by a political vengefulness that is alien to American life, are a great danger. They confuse our friends, mislead our adversaries and confound...
...medical students at the University of Karachi revealed that 12% are addicts. Heroin is so prevalent that enterprising pushers use women and children for home delivery of the drug, hidden in vegetable baskets. After Pakistani mothers took to the streets to demand tighter drug laws, President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq decreed a life sentence and 30 lashes for heroin merchants...
Students from John Jay College in New Jersey, Drew University in Wisconsin, and the University of Southern Alabama also wrote Pakistani president Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq this fall to demand Ahsan's release...
...nation struggles through its infancy, Hyder meets Iskander Harappa, a millionaire playboy. The death struggle that ensues between these two characters is shimmeringly based on recent Pakistani history. Iskander resembles Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the charismatic civilian leader who was deposed in 1977 and later executed by General Ziaul-Haq, Pakistan's current President and a fraternal twin of the fictional Raza Hyder. Similarly, the bloody civil war that led to the transformation of East Pakistan into independent Bangladesh in 1971 is mirrored here: "The final defeat of the western forces, which led to the reconstitution of the East Wing...
...members of the KhAD. Using Soviet land mines fished out of the ground with wooden pitchforks, they destroyed at least twelve enemy tanks in the Panjshir Valley last year. "We destroy their tanks in such a way that they cannot find the pieces," gloats Insurgent Strategist Mohammed es'Haq. "It has a good psychological effect...