Word: khans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World Bank, as well as most of the Western aid-giving nations, has concluded that economic aid to Pakistan should be suspended until the government of President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan takes significant steps toward easing its repression of the East. Last week, however, the Nixon Administration admitted that its economic aid to Pakistan, which amounted to $213 million last year, will continue. Even military aid, which theoretically was cut off when the terror began in East Pakistan on March 25, will not be suspended for equipment ordered before that date...
...Pakistan's President Agha Mo hammed Yahya Khan was loath to let Mujib attain power in the central government, and he was even less inclined to grant greater autonomy to East Pakistan. The subsequent crackdown by Pakistan's army, resulting in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of East Pakistanis, has made a political settlement even more remote...
...have been maligned," declared the Pakistani armed forces intelligence chief, Major General Mohammad Akbar Khan. The general's complaint, delivered to half a dozen foreign journalists in Karachi, concerned the widespread reports of army brutality in the effort to crush the seven-week-old Bengali rebellion in East Pakistan. Incensed by what it describes as "concocted items put out by foreign press and radio," the government staged a series of briefings and a fast four-day helicopter tour of the East to get the "correct" story across...
...India, and those who have stayed behind are threatened with an approaching famine that the government does not seem anxious to combat. Most outside observers have laid the responsibility for the East Pakistani tragedy to the hobnail-tough martial law imposed by Lieut. General Tikka (meaning "red hot") Khan. The West Pakistani-dominated government insists that the army has "saved the country," not destroyed it. The new official line: Bengali rebels, acting "in high conspiracy with India," were tearing through East Pakistan with "tactics reminiscent of Nazi storm troopers," and the army was forced to step in to prevent...
...journalists' tour was carefully staged to make the government's improbable tale at least look convincing. Army escorts for the six newsmen spared no effort to clean up, screen off or simply avoid shell-pocked buildings, burned-out Bengali settlements left by Tikka Khan's jets and tanks. On the other hand, the Pakistanis lost no opportunity to show off evidence of brutality by the Bengalis. At Natore, a town northwest of Dacca, the reporters were greeted by a "peace committee," as the army-organized pacification teams are known. The committee led the way to a nearby...