Word: pakistani
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which of the four major schools of interpretation (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafei and Hanbali) is followed. Islamic justice can be harsh in an eye-for-an-eye manner. Judges tend to opt for severity rather than leniency if there is any doubt. An American couple in Saudi Arabia caught their Pakistani houseboy stealing one day and ordered him to report to the police. They were astonished when he returned home minus one hand. It had been chopped off and the stub of his arm plunged into boiling tallow to disinfect...
...Greece and Spain, both retired military officers, resigned in protest. Air Marshal Abdur Rahim Khan, who had been Ambassador to Spain, warned that Bhutto could provoke "a true civil war." In Washington the State Department stopped a $68,000 shipment of tear gas, which had been widely used by Pakistani police in quelling disorders. Said a spokesman: "It's just a question of prudence...
Cousteau quoted a Pakistani representative to the international Law of the Sea Conference as saying, "Pakistan would like to have pollution," because it would indicate that the country had achieved a high level of industrial development...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan--The Pakistani government imprisoned 48 opposition leaders yesterday to forestall a demonstration that the Pakistani National Alliance, the opposition coalition, had planned for tomorrow...
...with the opposition on the question of human rights, Bhutto is attempting to strengthen his rule over the country." With the politicians locked in a dangerous standoff, some observers feared that the next response might come from the army, which has a long and inglorious tradition of interfering in Pakistani politics...