Word: haq
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There were no national anthems, no 21-gun salutes. Nonetheless, last week as Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi strode onto the tarmac at New Delhi airport to greet Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq last week, the occasion was momentous. Since the partitioning of Pakistan from India 35 years ago, relations between the Asian subcontinent's two major powers have been soured by three wars, border clashes and a legacy of bitterness and suspicion. Remarked a senior Indian official: "This is a historic moment...
Bharat Dube '83: No, definitely not, because I believe that the only way for people to combat Reagan's policies is to fight fire with fire. Specifically, people like Qadadafi (of Libya) and Zia al-Haq (of Pakistan) might possibly be prompted into using nuclear threats in order to bargain with the super-powers...
...nuclear development program, widely considered capable of producing atomic bombs, to international inspection. The Reagan Administration views Pakistan, which borders Afghanistan, as a bulwark against Soviet expansion in the region and argues that building a security relationship with the dictatorial and unpopular regime of General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq is the best way to persuade Islamabad to curb its nuclear ambitions...
...held more than 100 people hostage for 13 days. In an escalating series of ultimatums, they had killed one passenger and threatened to blow up the others. Finally they had hit the jackpot: they won the release of 54 prisoners from Pakistan's President Mo hammed Zia ul-Haq - and apparent freedom for themselves. The Pakistani prisoners, many of them accused murderers and all of them opponents of Zia's military regime, were duly flown to Damascus. As for the hijackers, their surrender to Syrian authorities appeared to be a mere formality on the road to convenient "disappearance...
...three Pakistani terrorists, who left the airplane shouting "Long live Bhuttoism!" claimed to belong to a group called Al Zulfikar, presumably named after Former President Zulfikar Ah Bhutto, founder of the opposition Pakistan People's Party (P.P.P.), who was jailed and executed by President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq in 1979. The Pakistani government reacted last week with arrests of some 200 political opponents, including Bhutto's widow Nusrat and his daughter Benazir...