Word: pakistan
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...since 1985. He went on to accuse the accounting firm Price Waterhouse of tolerating phony bookkeeping that made the bank look solvent -- a charge the auditor denies. Among the losses covered up were hundreds of millions of dollars in dubious loans in 1985-86 to the Gokal family of Pakistan, which owned a shipping company. "It was kept an incredible secret; not more than four or five people knew what had happened," Rahman said...
NUKES FOR PAKISTAN? Even as it served as a cash conduit for terrorists, money launderers and gunrunners, B.C.C.I. may have financed the illicit development of nuclear weapons programs. The U.S. last week pressed efforts to extradite Inam ul-Haq, a retired Pakistani brigadier, on charges that he masterminded an abortive 1987 plot to smuggle to Pakistan an American speciality steel used to enrich weapons-grade uranium. B.C.C.I reportedly provided credit for the deal. But Pakistan, home of B.C.C.I. founder Agha Hasan Abedi, denied -- as it has in the past -- that it seeks to develop nuclear arms, and said the government...
Beginning in the mid-'80s, however, the momentum of the green revolution slowed dramatically, especially in parts of India, China and Pakistan. In India's Punjab state, yields of rice and wheat have begun to flatten despite increasing reliance on fertilizers and better use of water. Elsewhere in Asia, rice researchers have failed to raise yields significantly for more than two decades. Hidden costs of the green revolution have begun to surface all around the world: the amount of irrigated land, which produces 35% of the food supply, has been declining in per capita terms. One reason is that fields...
...ways the Soviets surely recognize. While Saddam and Bush are at the top of each other's hate list today, Iraq is geographically much closer to the U.S.S.R. than to the U.S. So is China, which has a sizable arsenal, much of it aimed at Soviet targets. So is Pakistan, with its own nuclear ambitions...
...looted depositors of more than $5 billion in "the largest bank fraud in world history." Named as defendants were Agha Hasan Abedi, the Pakistani founder of B.C.C.I., and countryman Swaleh Naqvi, who had been the bank's chief operating officer. But bringing the pair to trial could prove impossible. Pakistan said last week it will refuse to extradite the ailing Abedi, 68, who is a hero in his homeland for organizing the Third World's largest bank...