Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Zainab Khan '96, a Muslim from Pakistan, said she was horrified and angry that a massacre could occur in a mosque during prayer, especially during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month...
Such is the sorry state of Pakistan's ruling dynasty on the 66th anniversary of the birth of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Nusrat's husband, Benazir's father and Pakistan's Prime Minister before General Zia had him hanged in 1979. The rift is not just mother against daughter, but also brother against sister. Accused of terrorism by the Zia regime, Murtaza Bhutto, 39, Nusrat's eldest son, has been in jail since November. After 16 years of exile abroad, he came home to claim a provincial seat he had won in absentia in the same elections that brought his older...
Benazir has spurned her mother's entreaties to get the charges against Murtaza dismissed. She has not even visited her sibling in prison. Last month she talked the central executive committee of the Pakistan People's Party, founded by her father, into dropping her mother from her post as party chairperson...
...machinery firmly in her control, no one expects any serious challenges to her rule. That is, until Murtaza gets out of jail. Even on bail, he will, by local Muslim tradition, automatically assume the leadership of the vast Bhutto clan. With his mother's help and the support of Pakistan's male- dominated Muslim society, brother Murtaza will be stalking his sister throughout her days in power...
...years Crichton responded by traveling like a tramp, the anthropologist in him exploring exotic cultures hard to reach. From Malaysia to Pakistan to an ascent of Kilimanjaro to a descent with South Pacific sharks, literally, he roamed. Along the way he was a spiritual pilgrim as well, exploring psychic phenomena the scientist within him assessed carefully but many times failed to discredit. He says he bent spoons, visited a past gladiatorial life in Rome, had his aura fluffed as you would a poodle. Once, he found himself in the desert conversing with a cactus, which he insulted, only to feel...