Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Politically the CIA's main challenge has been to avoid Unking its operation to the government of Pakistani President Zia ul-Haq. Burdened by the inflow of more than 3 million Afghan refugees, Zia has actively tried to negotiate a settlement to the war in the face of Soviet intransigence. He has also repeatedly denied Soviet charges that his country was directly supplying the Afghan rebels in any way. Evidence to the contrary would not only compromise the talks, which are being conducted through the United Nations, but could even give the Soviets a pretext for moving into Pakistan...
...Western diplomat notes. "When the CIA pipeline first moved in, there wasn't a path into or out of Afghanistan that they didn't have mapped down to every physical detail." Better yet, nearly half of the almost 5,000 ships that unloaded goods in the Pakistani port of Karachi last year were carrying cargo from the Persian Gulf. A special arrangement allows vessels transporting food or medicine for Afghan refugees in Pakistan to be unloaded quickly and waved onto waiting trucks without going through normal customs procedures. The Afghans probably make use of this system to send...
...young can be found in Pakistan, where a survey last summer of 500 engineering and medical students at the University of Karachi revealed that 12% are addicts. Heroin is so prevalent that enterprising pushers use women and children for home delivery of the drug, hidden in vegetable baskets. After Pakistani mothers took to the streets to demand tighter drug laws, President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq decreed a life sentence and 30 lashes for heroin merchants...
...heroin trade is further bolstered by Afghan refugees, who peddle the drug to help pay for the rebellion against the Soviet-backed government in Kabul. Western intelligence sources say that the Kabul regime, with Soviet connivance, is also injecting Pakistan with heroin in a deliberate attempt to destabilize Pakistani society. Officials in Karachi have found no way to stop this traffic. A government report calls vast areas of the Afghan frontier virtually "unpoliceable...
...show will include everything from an exhibit of art and photographs and demonstrations on Chinese calligraphy. Japanese origami and woodblock printing to a martial arts exhibition, and a fashion show of Indian and Pakistani clothing...