Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month earlier, Michael Pillsbury, an aide to Republican Senator Gordon Humphrey, used similar back-channel methods to influence the Afghanistan peace talks. On a visit to Pakistan, Pillsbury met privately with Maulvi Khalis, the leader of the mujahedin rebels, and reportedly told him that the U.S. and the Soviet Union had signed a "secret protocol" at the rebels' expense. "What Pillsbury did was scandalous," says Under Secretary of State Michael Armacost, who heard the story from Pakistani officials. "If there isn't a law against it, there ought...
...Antananarivo, capital of Madagascar, authorities are making plans to spend $3.8 million on a new fleet of garbage trucks, a purchase long deemed too expensive to contemplate. Pakistan will be spending $3 million to help finance an experimental farm in Baluchistan province. In Bolivia the government has received $11.3 million to spend on a vegetable-seed production project...
...Moscow promised to fulfill that wish: starting next month the Soviets will begin to withdraw their 115,000-man contingent from Afghanistan. But it will be a tense nine months before the pullout is complete. Under the terms of the Geneva accords signed by the U.S., the Soviet Union, Pakistan and Afghanistan, there is no cease-fire or promise of safe passage for Moscow's exiting forces. The mujahedin have refused to give any quarter to the Soviets, whose eight-year occupation has left more than 1 million Afghans dead...
United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar declared the occasion a "major stride in the effort to bring peace to Afghanistan," but his audience looked less than convinced. As diplomats from Pakistan, Afghanistan, the U.S. and the Soviet Union gathered in Geneva's Palais des Nations last week to sign an accord that secured the withdrawal of the 115,000 Soviet troops from Afghanistan beginning May 15, serious questions remained about a pact that had been under negotiation for the past six years...
...most problematic section called for a ban on "encouraging or supporting rebellious activities" -- wording that was clearly aimed at stopping the flow of U.S. weaponry through Pakistan to the mujahedin, the Afghan resistance forces. That provision has been a source of contention between the superpowers for many weeks. The Soviets refused to cut off their arms supplies to President Najibullah, the leader Moscow installed in Kabul in 1986. Washington insisted on "symmetry," the right to arm the mujahedin as long as Moscow helped Kabul, and two weeks ago Moscow grudgingly agreed...