Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Assistant Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture Ali S. Asani said this week that he believed that Bhutto and Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi showed the initial signs of changing the course of relations between the two countries...
Under Zia's rule, the U.S. enjoyed good diplomatic relations with the strategically located Muslim nation. When Bhutto--the daughter of the late Pakistani prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto--first came to power, many were unsure what her policy toward the U.S. would be, because her father had not aligned the country's policies with the West. But most believe the initial signs from Bhutto have been good...
Thus ended the life of Sheik Hassan Khaled, the revered Grand Mufti of Lebanon's 900,000 Sunni Muslims. Sheik Khaled had devoted most of his 68 years to seeking an accommodation between his country's perennially fractious Muslim and Christian populations...
...political front, U.S. optimism also seems misplaced. Some experts are worried that the mujahedin leader who has received the lion's share of U.S. support, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, is a fanatic Muslim who might turn out to be Afghanistan's version of the Ayatullah Khomeini. Others wonder whether the mujahedin coalition, linked by hatred of the Najibullah regime, could stay together long enough to form an effective government...
...endorsing Pakistan's vision of a friendly Islamic regime in Kabul. The rebel leader who most closely fills that bill is Hekmatyar, head of the best- disciplined guerrilla organization, Hezb-e-Islami (Islamic Party). Some ; Western experts are uncomfortable with Hekmatyar's plan to turn Afghanistan into a Muslim state governed by shari'a (Islamic law), which could take an anti-American course. Should Washington be supporting someone with the potential to be a U.S. enemy? Defenders say Hekmatyar, despite his Islamic zeal, is also a pragmatist. But abetting someone with a reputation for ruthlessness in pursuit of power could...