Word: indo
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...really tried to make the Harvard community aware of Pakistan--she was able to put it on the map," says Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture Annemarie Schimmel, whose lectures on Pakistan Bhutto often attended while at Radcliffe. "I told her father that she was a great messenger for the country--that she was doing more for Pakistan in that way than anyone could...
Assistant Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture Ali S. Asani said this week that he believed that Bhutto and Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi showed the initial signs of changing the course of relations between the two countries...
...think the potential is there to herald in a new era of Indo-Pakistani relations," Asani said. "I don't see a nuclear build-up there in the near future...
...massacre bore all the hallmarks of the guerrilla group known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and came almost exactly one year after Indian troops launched their offensive to disarm the Tigers. Indian soldiers had arrived in Sri Lanka in July 1987 to help implement an Indo-Sri Lankan agreement that gives the minority Tamils a greater measure of autonomy. But militants on opposite sides of the bloody Sri Lankan conflict united in rejecting the agreement...
President Jayewardene had his hands full in the south, meanwhile, as radicals among the Sinhalese majority continued their own agitation against the Indo-Sri Lankan agreement. Even schoolchildren took part in last week's protests, resulting in three student deaths before the government closed down all schools indefinitely. On Monday the J.V.P. called for a "day of resistance" against the provincial election. More in fear than in sympathy -- the J.V.P. has in the past year murdered some 450 supporters of the accord -- most of the Sinhalese population cooperated. The strike marked the second time in a month that Sinhalese rebels...