Word: pakistani
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hijackers, three heavily armed Pakistanis, picked out three American passengers on board and labeled them "CIA agents."* They threatened to shoot them first, then blow up the plane, if the Pakistani government did not release 55 political activists from prison. Their threat was all the more credible because they had already shot a Pakistani diplomat aboard the plane and dumped his body on the Kabul airport runway...
Just before the 6 p.m. Thursday deadline for the executions, Pakistani ofiicials negotiating with the hijackers announced that their government had agreed to release the prisoners. The capitulation defused the crisis-almost. At week's end, radical Libya, which had originally agreed to receive the Pakistani prisoners, suddenly balked. The detainees, who had flown first to Aleppo, Syria, went on to Athens, then headed back to Damascus, where the hijacked plane and the hostages remained. Finally the Syrians, who acted as mediators in the hijacking, agreed to receive the Pakistanis themselves. The hijackers found that acceptable and ended...
...three Pakistani terrorists, who left the airplane shouting "Long live Bhuttoism!" claimed to belong to a group called Al Zulfikar, presumably named after Former President Zulfikar Ah Bhutto, founder of the opposition Pakistan People's Party (P.P.P.), who was jailed and executed by President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq in 1979. The Pakistani government reacted last week with arrests of some 200 political opponents, including Bhutto's widow Nusrat and his daughter Benazir...
Money is no problem; this year the Saudis have allocated $20.7 billion for defense. But they suffer from a serious military manpower shortage. To help deal with it, they have entered into military cooperation with the populous, pro-Western Islamic country of Pakistan. The Pakistani government is training Saudi officers and has furnished an estimated 1,000 advisers to the Saudis...
Banuri laments that that power-fed attitude is common in the Pakistani government and may be one result of the colonial legacy...