Word: pakistani
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Muslims demanded a homeland all their own. "Pakistan Day" fell last Monday, and, as is traditional, the celebrations included a splashy military parade outside the capital city of Islamabad that tied up most of the Pakistan air force. This year, however, the festivities carried a steep price. With 72 Pakistani bomber and fighter planes diverted for a ceremonial flyover, the Soviet-backed Afghan air force took advantage of the security breach and struck three villages just inside Pakistan's northwestern border, where more than 1 million Afghan refugees live. At least 181 people were killed, and 200 others injured...
...most punishing cross-border assault on Pakistan since the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Pakistani officials speculated that the raids were a direct response to an earlier mujahedin attack on targets inside the Soviet Union. That too was news last week. Since Western correspondents are rarely allowed inside Afghanistan, battle accounts are slow to emerge and cannot be verified. According to rebel leaders and Western diplomats in Islamabad, guerrillas based in northern Afghanistan fired rockets across the Soviet border three weeks ago, killing twelve. It was the first report in several years of a mujahedin attack on Soviet territory...
...assertion nonetheless makes Pakistan a potential ninth member of the nuclear club.* And it confirmed widespread reports that within the past year Pakistani scientists had acquired or learned how to produce all the components of an atomic bomb, including a nuclear triggering device and weapons-grade uranium. Zia insists that Pakistan has not yet manufactured enriched uranium -- an assertion that is doubted by some observers, including U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Deane R. Hinton. Indeed, Zia seemed to imply that Pakistan could produce a bomb within a month, a deadline that most scientists consider would be difficult to meet unless weapons...
...neighbors and allies. In New Delhi, the government of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has come under pressure from conservative politicians to start building nuclear weapons. Relations between the longtime rivals on the subcontinent are already tense. Last week, following an angry standoff involving some 370,000 Indian and Pakistani troops that began in January, the two nations' forces began withdrawing from the Rajasthan sector of the border, continuing a pullback agreement worked out late last month. But the incident has left both sides edgy...
Speaking as one of four experts on Afghanistan in a discussion entitled "Peace and Security in Afghanistan," Es'haq cited the recent Soviet-Pakistani talks in Geneva which failed to bring peace to his country...