Word: karachi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indians, in addition to supporting Bangladesh and continuing to violate the Geneva accords, have also been accused of torturing and killing prisoners. The Karachi Sun reported on April 2 that India had killed its 43rd POW and that the Pakistani government had demanded an immediate inquiry. Such occurrences have only worked against any settlement of the POW issue...
...that a future coalition of previously contending nations will act like a magnet, and that soon even irascible India will be drawn in for her own good. Nixon understands the world. "It's a street scene to him," Kissinger once said in admiration. "You talk of Saigon or Karachi or almost any place, and he has been there. He can see it and hear it and smell...
...Karachi alone, 45,000 factory workers have been laid off. Industrial production is running at a third of capacity. The government, deprived of foreign aid for nearly a year, is almost bankrupt and is $120 million behind in foreign-debt repayments...
...some Western observers, the scene stirred thoughts of Pontius Pilate deciding the fates of Jesus and Barabbas. "Do you want Mujib freed?" cried Pakistan President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, at a rally of more than 100,000 supporters in Karachi. The crowd roared its assent, as audiences often do when subjected to Bhutto's powerful oratory. Bowing his head, the President answered: "You have relieved me of a great burden...
...Bengal by blaming all of its troubles on its former rulers in West Pakistan. He has a tendency to make extravagant promises, and to oversimplify complex economic and agricultural problems. "My brothers," he once told a gathering of East Pakistani jute farmers, "do you know that the streets of Karachi are paved with gold, and that it is done with your money earned from exporting jute...