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Bhutto began to fight back immediately. She declared that her Pakistan People's Party would challenge Ishaq's action in the courts on the grounds that it was "illegal and unconstitutional" and based on "a pack of lies." She accused the army of forcing the decision on Ishaq, who has close ties to the military. Ishaq previously served as a Finance Minister under General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, Pakistan's military dictator for 11 years and the man who had Bhutto's father, former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, hanged in 1979. "It is the army that is running...
Benazir Bhutto had always suspected that her term as Pakistan's Prime Minister would end abruptly, probably at the hands of the country's military. Even so, the news came as a shock to Bhutto last week. At 4:30 Monday afternoon, President Ghulam Ishaq Khan telephoned the Prime Minister at her official residence in Islamabad to inform her that he was dismissing her 20- month-old government under Article 58 of the constitution for "internal dissensions" and allegedly "horse trading for personal gain," among other things. "I can't believe it," she said as she hung up the phone...
...capital, President Ishaq addressed a press conference that began with a reading from the Koran: "Whatever evil befalls you is the result of your own deeds." He then proceeded to read a three-page indictment of the Bhutto government that included allegations of unconstitutional activities, corruption and mishandling of a violent political crisis in Sind province...
...dissolved the National Assembly and declared a state of emergency. To run the government as interim Prime Minister, he said, he had chosen Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, 59 the leader of the opposition in the dissolved assembly and an inveterate enemy of Bhutto's. Despite that stern action, Ishaq stressed his commitment to democracy and promised new elections on Oct. 24 as "an opportunity for the people to restore their representatives' accountability." Later that night the country's four provincial assemblies were dissolved as well...
...constitutional propriety surrounding Ishaq's dismissal of Bhutto, his action marked a perilous interruption of Pakistan's fragile democratic process. U.S. diplomats, who were influential in soothing fears within the army high command after Bhutto won the 1988 elections, responded coolly to Ishaq's move but deemed it "consistent with the constitution of Pakistan." The Bush Administration did not appear ready to go along with a handful of U.S. Senators who advocated a cutoff in Washington's almost $600 million-a-year aid to Pakistan in response to what they called a "quasi- military coup." But U.S. diplomats said...