Word: pakistani
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EVER since the end of the Indo-Pakistani war in December 1971, a true peace settlement on the subcontinent has been blocked by disagreement over what to do with three groups of political hostages, totaling more than...
...India is the increasingly unwilling custodian of 90,000 Pakistani prisoners of war, whose upkeep so far has cost more than $20 million...
...Bangladesh proposed a new settlement calling for simultaneous repatriation of the P.O.W.s, the Biharis and the Bengalis. To sweeten the offer, Bangladesh's Prime Minister, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, dropped his insistence that Pakistan formally recognize his country prior to negotiations. Dacca also scaled down the number of Pakistani soldiers it wants to try for atrocities committed during the war from 2,500 to less than...
...reason: in midnight raids that smacked of Nazi Germany, Pakistani police invaded the homes of several thousand Bengalis in Islamabad, loaded them on to buses and trucks and hauled them off to internment camps in northern Pakistan. The victims were all former Pakistani government employees. Officials offered a number of lame explanations, though none for the terror tactics involved in the action. The housing was needed for others, it was said. But the claim was also made that the Bengalis were being taken away "in preparation for their eventual repatriation to Bangladesh...
Perhaps the best advice that Americans can take regarding the issue is found in an advertisement of the April 13 issue of The New York Times. The ad, sponsored by two private Pakistani foundations, said, "Congratulations, Women of U.S.A., your boys are back home...but think of the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters of 90,000 Pakistani POWs and Civil Internees in India...