Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nonetheless, for most of the women who had come from far corners of the earth to express their solidarity, even a damp sojourn under a heavy official hand proved exhilarating. If Clinton did not impress a delegate, perhaps Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto did, or Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, who appeared in a specially recorded videotape that was smuggled out of Rangoon...
DIED. ALISON HARGREAVES, 33, Scottish mountaineer; on K2, in Pakistan. The first woman to scale Everest without using oxygen, Hargreaves was hit by an avalanche on the world's second-highest peak...
DIED. AGHA HASAN ABEDI, 73, founder of the Bank of Credit & Commerce International; of heart failure; in Karachi, Pakistan. Allegations of criminality brought down the once-powerful B.C.C.I. in 1991. Subsequently, Abedi, accused of perpetrating the largest financial fraud in history, was indicted for theft and other charges in the U.S., but Pakistan refused to extradite...
With a little prodding, Milt Bearden will talk about the exploding camel. It was back in the late 1980s, when Bearden was the CIA field commander in Islamabad, Pakistan, training Afghan guerrillas in their anti-Soviet insurgency. Bearden, now retired, says he was a conscientious teacher, imparting military instruction but simultaneously making sure that his students knew the difference between acts of war and acts of terrorism or human-rights violations. He expressly prohibited indiscriminate "wide area" attacks. "I said, 'Never, never, never do car bombs,'" he recalls. Rueful pause. "I never said, 'Don't do a camel bomb.'" That...
...China deploying its new might just locally. It is sending missile and nuclear technology to such places as Pakistan and Iran. The Pakistan connection represents a flanking maneuver against China's traditional enemy, India; Iran, a leapfrog to make trouble for that old imperial master, the West...