Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public, at least, Armacost downplayed the dispute. He described the nuclear discussions as "very frank and, I believe, useful." Further talks, he said, would follow. But Pakistani Foreign Minister Sahabzada Yaqub Khan was more direct. He indignantly declared that acceding to any U.S. inspection demand would be "an affront to our self-respect and harmful to our national interests...
...opposition leader in 1986 and a strong challenger to her father's nemesis, President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq. Last week the articulate Benazir Bhutto, 34, a graduate of Harvard and Oxford, astonished friends and foes alike by announcing that she had agreed to an arranged marriage to a wealthy Pakistani businessman whom she had met only twice before...
Maraging 350 steel is a special steel alloy used in the enrichment of weapons- grade uranium. After a 20-month undercover investigation, federal officials in Philadelphia arrested Arshad Pervez, a Canadian of Pakistani origin, on charges of attempting to export the alloy. The apparent destination was Pakistan, which has repeatedly denied charges that its nuclear facility at Kahuta is intended to produce weapons. Democrat Stephen Solarz of New York, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, criticized the Pakistani government of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq for showing "blatant disregard" for U.S. antiproliferation laws...
More than three quarters of the population is Chinese, about 15 percent Malay, six percent Indian, Ceylonese, and Pakistani, and about 2.3 percent European, Jewish, Armenian, and Arab...
Brigadier A.R. Siddiqi, editor of Pakistan's Defence Journal, admits that airborne surveillance systems would be of little military value. But like many Pakistani military officers, he believes the planes have a larger symbolic importance. "We need AWACS from a broader geostrategic perspective. It will give tangible proof of American commitment and thus add to our security...