Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hostages, but for the dozen or so men who remained on board, tied to their seats, conditions were said to be horrendous. There were reports that the Airbus had been disabled late Friday night by bursts of gunfire that shattered windows in the cockpit and cabin. A freed Pakistani passenger said the hostages had tried unsuccessfully to overpower their captors. The Iranian government news agency claimed that the hijackers would soon "put all the Americans aboard the plane on trial" and had beaten one of the two remaining American hostages. None of the stories could be confirmed...
...journey that was unfolding so violently had an ordinary enough beginning. Flight 221 to Karachi is usually filled with expatriate Pakistani workers returning home after a year or two in Kuwait. The flight last week was no exception, and at least 120 Pakistanis patiently waited to check in at Kuwait International Airport with their newly acquired portable stereos and TV sets and with well-stuffed oversize suitcases. They were joined by at least ten Kuwaitis, including three diplomats heading for the Karachi consulate, as well as a team of three American auditors from the U.S. Agency for International Development...
...radio negotiations dragged on between the plane and control towers in Tehran and Kuwait, the hijackers pressed their demands. Finally, they agreed to let some of the 161 on board the Airbus leave. First, 46 women and children, including an American married to a Pakistani, and her daughter, made their way across the airstrip. All had been stripped of their personal papers and any identifying documents. They were followed by 23 Pakistanis and, later in the week, by a group of 30 men. The terrorists let eight more hostages go on Friday, and at week's end they released...
Even with such compelling cases and the case of simply an already printed said many students still read by saving that such efforts are inconsequential. Fortunately this is not always true Last year for example, one month after HRAI postcard drive. Tariq Ashan, a Pakistani student arrested for lending his motor bike to a friend who used it to distribute an underground newspaper, was set free In fact, 47 percent of the case that Amnesty International handles improve while, only 5 percent deteriorate...
...Gandhi came through with a sort of quiet strength that I find reassuring," said Shultz after their meeting. The new leader also met with Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, whose presence-the first by a Pakistani head of state at the funeral of an Indian Prime Minister-seemed a promising gesture of geod will. That same day, at his first Cabinet meeting, Gandhi disclosed that he would serve as his own Foreign Minister...