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...terms, she would be barred from holding public office for the next seven years if found guilty -- which is exactly what her opponents want. The most serious charge grows out of a Bhutto government decision last year to sell 287 acres of public land in the capital city of Islamabad to a London firm, Messers International Guarantee Trust Co. The government offered the land for $1 million, though its real market value was reputed to have been closer to 15 times that amount. The implication is that someone in authority stood to benefit handsomely from the transaction...
...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. Shortly afterward she saw soldiers take...
Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto '73 is reportedly under house arrest in Islamabad after being deposed in a surprise move by Pakistan's president early yesterday...
...home to more than half the state's 7 million people -- 65% of them Muslim. There India faces a bloody insurgency and a runaway mass movement for secession that is joined even by local police and civil servants. New Delhi accuses Pakistan of arming and training the rebels. Islamabad denies the charge, but the Bhutto government openly gives its political support to the rebellion...
Whatever the full extent of Islamabad's involvement, it is clear that members of rebel groups like the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front cross the border from India, sometimes under covering fire from Pakistani troops, buy weapons in Pakistan's open arms markets, seek military training with the mujahedin in Afghanistan and return to Kashmir to fight on. India, doing its best to seal off the uprising, has increased its paramilitary forces in the region from...