Word: pakistani
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...bumper crop of cotton. Zia has set as his goal the creation of an "Islamic democracy," but his vision of Islamization is far more restrained than the one being practiced by the mullahs in neighboring Iran. Zia has remained on correct terms with both Iran and Iraq and strengthened Pakistani ties with the gulf states, particularly Saudi Arabia. There, under the terms of a secret defense agreement, 30,000 Pakistani troops are on duty defending the House of Saud and its oil riches...
...military coup in 1977, Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq has been assuring his countrymen that he wanted nothing so much as to call free elections and restore his country to a democratic system. He finally got around to staging a referendum last December in which Pakistani voters were invited to say whether they endorsed Zia's program of Islamization and in effect whether they wanted him to continue as President. About 98% of those who voted said they...
...implicated in the murder of the father of a political opponent). That figure is Benazir Bhutto, 31, daughter of the late Prime Minister and today the acting head of her father's Pakistan People's Party. She has been in self-imposed exile in London for the past year. Pakistani police have gone to extraordinary effort to see to it that Bhutto did not try to return during the campaign and disrupt the painstakingly planned proceedings. At Karachi International Airport, security officials carefully checked the identities of veiled women returning from overseas. In London, Bhutto declared that she had originally...
...current investigation was apparently triggered last September, when reports in U.S. newspapers, based on leaks from a CIA briefing to a congressional committee in Washington, said that New Delhi had considered a pre-emptive strike on a Pakistani nuclear installation before it was capable of producing nuclear weapons. The proposal had been firmly rejected by Mrs. Gandhi, and Indian intelligence officials, as one remarked, "smelled a rat." After Mrs. Gandhi's assassination by two of her own bodyguards six weeks later, intelligence agencies underwent a major shake-up. When routine surveillance aroused suspicions about some officials, intelligence officers met with...
...Indo-Pakistani Relations. We would like to improve our relations very much and finish off this confrontation that has been there for years. President Zia ul-Haq spoke very positively when he was here in November, (but that) has not been translated into action by his officials. The arms buildup in Pakistan is certainly a danger. The types of weapons (supplied mainly by the U.S.) that are coming in are such that they are unlikely to be used in Afghanistan, which is the ostensible use for them. We would like a reduction in the level and sophistication of arms that...