Word: khans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said in a televised address that Bhutto had "the best qualities of leadership and foresight as a statesman...
Acting President Ghulam Ishaq Khan is not bound to invite Bhutto to form a government. But it is hard to imagine his sidestepping her without unleashing a furious reaction. Bhutto handily won all three National Assembly seats she contested (two of which will have to be filled in by-elections), and her party was carried to victory mainly on the strength of her blazing speeches and dazzling charisma. Standing in a convoy of speeding jeeps, her head held high and covered with a colorful dupatta, or scarf, this 35-year-old Western- educated wife and mother attracted frenzied adulation...
...Ishaq Khan hinted he would not automatically bypass Bhutto: "I think a woman Prime Minister might be a good change." In the male-dominated Muslim society of Pakistan, it would be an astonishing one. That did not daunt Bhutto. She immediately set out to solicit coalition partners. By Thursday night she claimed, "We already have a simple majority in the parliament." But Nawaz Sharif is also scrambling to assemble a majority, and likewise predicts he will succeed...
...last week as candidates for the Nov. 16 national elections revved campaign machinery into high gear. While Bhutto and her mother, Begum Nusrat Bhutto, crisscrossed the country, their opponents in the powerful Islamic Democratic Alliance, a nine-party coalition that controls the national caretaker government under President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, called out impressive processions of supporters in major cities. For the first time since 1977, Pakistan was immersed in a national campaign with the participation of all political parties...
Former Prime Minister Mohammad Khan Junejo, one of Bhutto's main rivals from the Islamic Alliance, conceded defeat late yesterday in his bid for an assembly seat...