Word: mohajir
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...block the general elections, scheduled for February 3. The justices ruled 6-1 against Bhutto after hearing convincing evidence of the former prime minister's corruption, phone-tapping, and a series of extrajudicial killings. Bhutto had also been accused of backing police hit squads in attacks against the Mohajir Qami Movement, an Indian Muslim opposition group, in the southern port city of Karachi. Bhutto, whose political career was born out of violence when she inherited the leadership of her father's populist party after he was deposed and later executed by General Mohammed Zia-ul Haq in 1977, first...
...fact, the barbarians are well established in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city (pop. 10 million). The town is torn by conflict between rival factions of Mohajir Muslim migrants from India, between the terrorists and the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and between rival groups of Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims. Add to that a booming heroin trade, a kidnap-for-ransom industry and a mountain of weapons left over from the 1979-89 Afghanistan war. The result: 1,200 murders in the past year, making Karachi one of the deadliest cities in the world. (In New York City, where...
...Center bombing. Others suggest it may have been a deliberate attack on CIA employee Durell, pointing out that only he was directly fired upon. Van Landingham died because she was sitting beside Durell and came in the line of fire. Yet another theory is that Prime Minister Bhutto's Mohajir opponents may have planned the killings to disrupt a recent warming in U.S.-Pakistani relations: the Prime Minister will visit Washington next month, and Hillary and Chelsea Clinton are expected to arrive in Pakistan-though not in Karachi-on March 26 at the beginning of a 10-day Asian trip...