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...progress through bilateral negotiations and talks." Pakistani enthusiasm for a nuclear-arms race may quickly wane under the fierce bite of the same U.S. sanctions slapped on India, because Pakistan depends far more on international loans. "They are wrong to say the costs would be manageable," insists Mahbub ul Haq, a former Pakistani Finance Minister...
...against the Mohajir Qami Movement, an Indian Muslim opposition group, in the southern port city of Karachi. Bhutto, whose political career was born out of violence when she inherited the leadership of her father's populist party after he was deposed and later executed by General Mohammed Zia-ul Haq in 1977, first won the prime minister's office in 1988. She was dismissed after only 20 months amid allegations of corruption and incompetence. The term that ended ignominiously in November began with her first re-election in 1993. Bhutto's removal was the fourth government dismissal in the past...
Just as the Serbs cannot tolerate a Muslim person in the Balkans, neither can the international community, led by Britain and France, tolerate a Muslim country as a wholly European neighbor. RASHID HAQ Tully, New York...
...ambivalence of the West. Many Westerners are indifferent to the brutalities of the Algerian government because they justifiably fear that a takeover by the Islamists will mean savage beheadings, amputations and unfair treatment of women and minorities. The irony is that similar laws were instituted by General Zia ul-Haq in Pakistan, whose government had the full blessings of the West. The only way to defuse the situation in Algeria is to hold a free general election and require the Islamic Salvation Front to renounce extremism...
...year-old widow and her supporters who had gathered at the family mansion nearby. Raising a white handkerchief in a sign of peace, Nusrat Bhutto asked police to allow her supporters to tend to the wounded. Angrily, she compared her daughter to General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the dictator who had sent her husband to the very grave she was now barred from visiting...