Word: haq
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lives and money to take and hold the Saltoro, it would be politically difficult for Gandhi to yield even part of the territory to Pakistan, especially with national elections only months away. Bhutto is in an even more sensitive position. Having once taunted late President Mohammed % Zia ul-Haq, her predecessor, for losing the territory in the first place, she now faces poisonous criticism from opposition leaders who accuse her of "submission" to India. In the end, both Gandhi and Bhutto will have to stare down their political antagonists in order to agree on a boundary line across the north...
Throughout the speech, Bhutto pointed to her experiences in Pakistan, praising international response to the dictatorship which her regime succeeds. Bhutto was elected prime minister in December, four months after the sudden death of General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq...
Bhutto is an example of that trend. Although she had a privileged childhood, she spent much of a decade in prison and exile. She suffered through the overthrow, imprisonment and execution of her father Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto at the hands of General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who ruled Pakistan from 1977 until his death in an airplane crash last year. Three months later, Bhutto became Prime Minister after waging a fiery political campaign that led hundreds of thousands of her supporters into the streets...
...young Bhutto was making a significant impression on her colleagues at Oxford, her father was facing powerful opposition at home. Only weeks after she graduated from the University, the elder Bhutto was overthrown in a military coup in 1977 by Gen. Mohammad Zia ul-Haq and was executed two years later...
Bhutto--who heads the Pakistan People's Party--was elected prime minister last December, four months after the mysterious death of Pakistan's former leader, military dictator Mohammad Zia ul-Haq...