Word: junejo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since her return from exile last April, the charismatic leader of the Pakistan People's Party has been trying to force a confrontation with Zia and Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo, who assumed office last year after elections that were boycotted by most of the country's political parties. Bhutto roused huge crowds with calls for new elections and the resignation of Zia, who has insisted on remaining the unelected President until 1990, permitting no elections to the National Assembly until then...
...contradictions in the U.S. stance were evident last week during a state visit by Pakistani Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo. Did the Reagan Administration press Pakistan to stop producing the more than 100 tons of opium that will reach the U.S. this year as heroin? Not very hard, since the Administration was arranging to give Pakistan a six-year, $4 billion military and economic aid package with no drug-strings attached. President Reagan had other serious matters to discuss with Junejo: Pakistan's reputed effort to produce nuclear weapons (which Junejo denied) and Pakistan's support for mujahedin rebels...
...plot against a political rival. Last year Zia engineered the ^ first steps toward a new Pakistani democracy by allowing long-promised parliamentary elections, though he banned political parties. After martial law was lifted, he turned over many government functions to a civilian council led by Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo...
...personally honest and religious leader. The general commands respect, if not admiration, from many Pakistanis, and has been able to sustain healthy growth in the country's economy. Last week his backers sought to blunt the effect of Bhutto's return by awarding some political favors. Prime Minister Junejo and Punjab Chief Minister Nawaz Sharif announced that, effective immediately, new land would be granted to rural tenants and urban squatters and the price of cooking oil would be reduced...