Word: nawaz
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...scimitar of Islam. Never mind that not once since Pakistan became a nation 51 years ago has this noisy brandishing of faith ever worked to bolster the leader's popularity. Now, with Pakistan ostracized after its nuclear tests and on the edge of economic collapse, Prime Minister Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif is reviving the old custom of trying to make the Islamic Republic of Pakistan even more Islamic than it already...
...because he has been--traveling to Europe, Africa, South America and China. But with the exception of NATO expansion and the Northern Ireland peace accord, foreign policy gems have been elusive. The Monica Effect is easily overstated here--the sex scandal surely didn't influence Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's decision to ignore Clinton's pleas and detonate underground nuclear tests in response to India's--but foreign leaders are sensitive to shifts in American presidential power. Despite Clinton's warnings, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thumbs his nose at the peace process and Saddam Hussein continues to harass...
...Chagai test site shook, then collapsed. Needles on seismic recorders from Australia to Sweden bounced forward to 4.9 on the Richter scale, indicating that an underground explosion with the power of 2 to 12 kilotons had discharged. "We have settled the score with India," Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif grimly announced, claiming that five nuclear bombs had been exploded. U.S. intelligence officials suspected there had been fewer. But on Saturday Pakistan conducted one more test at a nearby site to mirror India's back-to-back blasts. In an exclusive interview with TIME, Sharif said these tests would...
...glimmer of hope among aides to PRESIDENT CLINTON that the diplomatic and economic carrots they're offering may have bought them at least a week's delay before Pakistan decides whether or not to detonate a nuclear device. Pakistani officials have told the State Department that Prime Minister NAWAZ SHARIF will send a delegation to Washington at the end of May to discuss how India's nuclear tests two weeks ago have affected their security concerns. American officials believe it's unlikely Islamabad would explode its bomb before that meeting. Oddly, this restraint is making India nervous, as shown...
...official: Pakistan has followed her neighbor into the nuclear club. "Today we have settled the score with India," Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif declared on Pakistani television. And it truly is a tit-for-tat: Five atomic devices were detonated at the Pakistani test site near the Iran-Afghanistan border, matching India bomb for bomb. Such an overtly macho action is hardly unusual in subcontinental politics. As TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says: "Pakistan is trying to return to the status quo ante...