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...Pakistani military, which takes delivery of the arms shipments at Karachi and other ports of entry, is keeping some equipment for itself...
Bhutto has thus far failed to transform her personal popularity into political power. When she and other People's Party leaders were arrested in August during a government crackdown, the party called for a nationwide protest. Riots followed in Karachi and rural Sind province, the Bhutto family's traditional power base, but there were no large-scale demonstrations elsewhere. Some opposition leaders criticized Bhutto, who was kept in jail for 25 days, for forcing a premature confrontation. Leftists in her own party complained that she had refused to engage in anti-American rhetoric or to blame...
...tries to eradicate the Bhutto legend, the more powerful it becomes. Many Pakistanis are still bitter that Zia allowed Prime Minister Bhutto's body to be buried without a member of the family present. When news of Shahnawaz's death reached Pakistan, thousands went to the Bhutto home in Karachi to pay their respects. People burned stacks of an Urdu-language newspaper that suggested Shahnawaz may have died from alcohol and drugs. In Sind province, most business came to a standstill. Some defied the ban on entering Sind for the funeral rites. Said Malik Mohammed Qasim, secretary-general...
...remote burial ground of Garhi Khuda Baksh, 200 miles northeast of Karachi, hundreds of Pakistanis gathered to pay their respects to Shahnawaz Bhutto, 27, son of the late Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances on the French Riviera last month. Thousands of others were trying to reach the area in the expectation that the funeral would be held this week. But Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq was taking no chances that the outpouring of sympathy for the Bhutto family would turn into a huge and possibly unmanageable political demonstration. Zia conveyed...
...groups of 60 to 100; today each group numbers five or fewer. Taliban leader Mullah Omar and his 10 loyal commanders still direct military operations--but they're phoning it in, say coalition officials. An Afghan liaison with U.S. special forces says Omar was spotted two months ago in Karachi, Pakistan. A U.S. officer in Kandahar says a Taliban fighter was recently overheard lamenting on a radio, "Where are you, Omar? Why have you forsaken...