Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Malik M. Hasan, founder and chief executive officer of QualMed, a Pueblo, Colorado, managed-care company that owned an HMO that competed against Health Net in Northern California. To best grasp Hasan's delight in bold business maneuvers, one need only know that as a young medical student in Pakistan in the late 1950s he made roughly $10 million selling land along the anticipated rights of way of new highways revealed to him by a patient who happened to be a public-works surveyor. Dr. Hasan, a neurologist, says he was once "rabidly anti-managed care." He built his first...
...backs the Bosnians, has quietly won $100 million in Pentagon weaponry and supplies for Sarajevo in a 1996 spending bill. Some U.S. officials say it will take several times that amount to right the military balance. Nations likely to be asked for weapons and cash include Turkey, Egypt and Pakistan. Those countries, expecting nearly $3 billion in U.S. aid this year, may have a hard time saying...
Gallucci, who was the chief negotiator during the 16-month negotiations on nuclear proliferation agreement with North Korea, said he now thinks that Pakistan and India are the greatest nuclear threats to peace...
...India and Pakistan are quite dangerous and Kashmir is the ignition point," Gallucci said. "The availability of ballistic weapons puts even the continental United States in danger...
...easy to downplay the global nature of the problem and focus on just one place. Benazir Bhutto won high praise for using her podium time in Beijing to criticize the Chinese treatment of women. What neither she nor the press mentioned is that in Pakistan, female rape victims are subject to prison sentences for "adultery." Bhutto once promised to end this stunningly malicious practice, but backed off rather than offend the local mullahs...