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Behind the mayhem is rebel mujahedin leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who apparently decided he could not afford to allow President Burhanuddin Rabbani's interim government to gain much stability. On Aug. 2, Pakistan's Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif was due to arrive in Kabul, and Hekmatyar's rockets closed the airport. On Aug. 8, Rabbani was to fly to Tehran. The attacks intensified again. Since he was due in Pakistan last week for meetings with Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif, it was predictable that the rockets would come in more heavily than ever. Last week's barrage left 600 people dead...
...fundamentalist," declared Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif last week, but that did not stop him from introducing broad legislation to make strict Islamic law, or Shari'a, the "supreme law of Pakistan." Addressing a joint session of Pakistan's Senate and National Assembly, Nawaz Sharif outlined a legislative package that includes changes in the education and judicial systems and the restructuring of the economy along Islamic lines. The proposed legislation fulfills Nawaz Sharif's election promise to the small but powerful Islamic parties that helped him defeat Benazir Bhutto last October...
Last week the new government of Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif, which had promised to institute a legal system based on Shariat law, decided to seek a new interpretation of the law from Islamic scholars. Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, a federal minister, announced that the strikers' "misgivings" would be remedied by a "simpler and befitting interpretation" of the law. Nawaz Sharif is learning that imposing Islamic codes is far tougher than campaigning on the issue...
...People's Party who were cruelly oppressed under Zia. Among the party's first acts after coming to power was a campaign to bribe and threaten legislators in Punjab, an opposition-ruled province where more than 60% of Pakistanis live. The goal: to overthrow Bhutto's nemesis, Mian Nawaz Sharif, Punjab's chief minister, a wealthy industrialist and a crony of Zia's. Privately, Bhutto's confidants justified the failed assault by arguing that Nawaz Sharif won only by rigging Punjab's elections, a view not supported by most impartial observers...
...President could still give the Alliance first crack at fashioning a governing coalition, but its two main leaders failed to win Assembly seats. Command of the Alliance was ceded to Mian Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab and a Zia protege, who won two seats...