Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tragedy seemed especially shocking, it may be because its victims were so unsuspecting. Many were watching a soccer match on television; others were sitting down to an evening meal. Unlike the 167 people who died last month when a Pakistan International Airlines Airbus crashed in Nepal, the ! victims in Amsterdam had made no decision to assume the risks of flying. They simply happened to live near a busy airport...
...JOBS IN JOURNALISM GO, Grant McCool's was a plum assignment. Based in Hong Kong for the Reuters news service, McCool covered breaking news throughout east Asia, traveling to South Korea, China and Pakistan. But in 1989, after five hectic years, the native of Scotland was ready for a change. That's when his bosses transferred him to New York City to be an editor...
...back pages of U.S. newspapers, a by- the-way story from somewhere off in the Third World -- less important, by inference, than the natural disasters in Hawaii, where four people died, or Florida last month, where 41 perished, in hurricanes. Yet the floods that have been building up in Pakistan over the past month have wrought one of the worst natural disasters there in 45 years. More than 2,000 people have drowned, and innumerable farm animals have been left floating in the polluted waters of a vast brown inland sea that has covered thousands of villages, the nation...
Behind the mayhem is rebel mujahedin leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who apparently decided he could not afford to allow President Burhanuddin Rabbani's interim government to gain much stability. On Aug. 2, Pakistan's Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif was due to arrive in Kabul, and Hekmatyar's rockets closed the airport. On Aug. 8, Rabbani was to fly to Tehran. The attacks intensified again. Since he was due in Pakistan last week for meetings with Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif, it was predictable that the rockets would come in more heavily than ever. Last week's barrage left 600 people dead...
...former member of the staff of the National Security Council, has told TIME that in 1982, the NSC began receiving a stream of intelligence reports detailing the bank's arms trafficking, drug involvement, support of terrorists and role in the transfer of U.S. technological secrets to countries such as Pakistan and the Soviet Union...