Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contradictions in the U.S. stance were evident last week during a state visit by Pakistani Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo. Did the Reagan Administration press Pakistan to stop producing the more than 100 tons of opium that will reach the U.S. this year as heroin? Not very hard, since the Administration was arranging to give Pakistan a six-year, $4 billion military and economic aid package with no drug-strings attached. President Reagan had other serious matters to discuss with Junejo: Pakistan's reputed effort to produce nuclear weapons (which Junejo denied) and Pakistan's support for mujahedin rebels...
...self-reliant and acquisitive. "American film exports the American dream," says Charlton Heston, "which is achievable, not a fantasy. What film has done to the developing world is to change its sense of possibility." Yet a car and a comfy suburban split-level are not reasonably achievable by a Pakistani farmer; thus pop's glossy portrayals of the good life can raise cruelly false hopes...
...armored units patrolled the city to prevent a violent backlash from Karmal loyalists. The leadership change seems to have been timed to highlight a major Soviet military offensive in the eastern part of the country and coincide with the opening of the seventh and last round of the Afghan-Pakistani peace talks in Geneva...
...took power in a 1977 coup d'etat that overthrew Benazir's father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Two years later, he allowed the elder Bhutto to be hanged in connection with an alleged murder plot against a political rival. Last year Zia engineered the ^ first steps toward a new Pakistani democracy by allowing long-promised parliamentary elections, though he banned political parties. After martial law was lifted, he turned over many government functions to a civilian council led by Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo...
Nonetheless, if Benazir Bhutto and the P.P.P. are able to mount large and fervent demonstrations against Zia, the Pakistani establishment is going to feel the pressure. In the nearly five years Bhutto remained in the country following her father's execution, Zia responded to her challenges by simply throwing her in jail or placing her under house arrest. This time the President is clearly trying to avoid resorting to such authoritarian measures. "I will rule this country from my grave," predicted the charismatic Zulfikar Ali Bhutto before going to the gallows. Last week, at least, his daughter seemed determined...