Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ancient Hatred. Meanwhile, West Pakistani industry is operating at only one-third of capacity because of the loss of sales to the markets in the more populous Eastern half of the country-and because of a general economic slump. West Pakistan is hurt in other ways, too, by East Pakistan's economic collapse. In normal times East Pakistan's jute industry earns nearly half the whole country's foreign exchange; now it lies idle, and the rest of the East's meager industry and transportation facilities have sustained almost complete disruption. West Pakistan will need...
...reportedly informed the French embassy in Algiers that he wanted to defect, and the Chinese had learned of his plans. When French officials at Orly told the Chinese diplomats that Chang was too indisposed to travel, they became agitated and shouted "Bullies!" and "Fascists!" at the police. While the Pakistani plane took off without any of the Chinese aboard, both sides swiftly called up reinforcements. Fifty tough riot troopers of the C.R.S. (Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité) took up positions outside the police office in which the drugged Chinese had been bedded down. Fifteen members...
...Pakistanis are bent on exterminating the last living Bengali. The history of the 23 years of Pakistani subjugation of Bangla Desh is clearly indicative of Pakistani attitudes toward Bengalis. The events of the past two months leave no doubts in our minds or the world's mind that Yahya Khan and his Pakistanis are willing to use every method of mass extermination in an effort to keep the Bengalis enslaved...
Within hours after launching a tank-led offensive in Dacca and other East Pakistani cities on the night of March 25, the Pakistan army imposed a virtual blackout on the brutal civil war in Bangla Desh (Bengal State) by expelling foreign newsmen. TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, who was among them, recently trekked back from India by Honda, truck, bus and bicycle to become the first American journalist to visit Dacca since the fighting started. His report...
...soldiers in Kushtia stole out of the radio building and covered 14 miles on foot before two Bengali militiamen took them prisoner and brought them back to the Kushtia district jail. The 13 were the only known survivors of Delta Company's 147 men. Among the West Pakistani dead was Nassim Waquer, a 29-year-old Punjabi who last January had been appointed assistant deputy commissioner at Kushtia. When an angry mob found his body, they dragged it through the streets of the town for half a mile...