Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...December of 1981, Harvard Medical School officials announced a program to help develop the Aga Kahn Hospital and Medical College, Pakistan's largest medical school and teaching hospital, in conjunction with Palestinian spiritual leader Karim Aga Khan '59. Since then, Harvard Medical School doctors have dispensed valuable advice to Pakistani faculty. But Harvard's growing cosmopolitanism may turn out to work both ways. As events of last spring indicate, endowments and gifts from foreign countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, could develop into an important source of funding for Harvard programs. With that possibility have come questions about the conditions that could...
...northern Pakistani city of Peshawar, which serves as headquarters for the Afghan rebels, was rife with rumors last week that some kind of deal was about to be worked out between the Soviet-installed regime of Afghan President Babrak Karmal and the government of Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. Diplomats from the two countries, have been meeting in Geneva under the auspices of the United Nations in an attempt to negotiate an agreement, but the rebels are opposed to the talks on the grounds that they are not represented...
Publicly, State Department officials stayed mum on the leak and tried to shift attention back to American support for the Pakistani-led efforts to negotiate a political settlement for Afghanistan. Privately, however, they were furious. They were worried that the revelation would embarrass the Pakistanis into cracking down on the arms shipments. "Successful covert actions must be kept quiet," snapped one official. "That's why they're covert." Some State Department hands speculated that the leak was designed to highlight the Administration's involvement in a popular cause like Afghanistan, where the Soviet threat is unambiguous...
After a week of preparation, they were disguised as tribesmen by the muhajedeen and taken on a seven-hour bus trip to the Afghan border. The trip, which is illegal for Westerners, involved several close calls as the bus passed through Pakistani security checks...
Schimmel said yesterday the Pakistani government presents the award only once every few years...