Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard has been commissioned by the Pakistani spiritual leader Karim Aga Kahn '59 to help set up a private university some-where in the Third World...
Edward I. Keenan, director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and a member of the committee, attended ceremonies last weekend in Karachi where the Pakistani government granted a charter to the proposed university...
Some of the most important business took place behind the scenes. Mrs. Gandhi and Pakistani President Mohammed Ziaul-Haq, whose countries have fought three wars over the past 35 years, signed a five-year agreement on economic, scientific and cultural cooperation. Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, informed Lebanese President Amin Gemayel that he would pull his forces out of Lebanon whenever the Lebanese government requested it. (Previously, the P.L.O. had said it would withdraw only when Syrian forces did.) Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met with Jordan's King Hussein and Arafat, who had ostracized Egypt when...
...American urging, Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq has cracked down on the narcotics industry in his country. Officials of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in Washington, which works closely with the Pakistanis, estimate that their joint efforts have stopped only about 10% of the traffic out of the area. But they feel that Pakistan is serious about fighting heroin production. Last year about 2,000 kilos of heroin were seized in the country, and they hope for an even better showing this year...
Khan, a specially trained Pakistani customs official, has cultivated a network of informants throughout the Golden Crescent. All of them are smugglers who turned to informing to make more money or to settle old scores. Since moving to Peshawar three years ago, Khan has seized 1,458 kilos of heroin. "I do not feel any sense of elation when we make a big bust," says Khan. "What I worry about is whether my informant's cover has been blown. If it has, then it means we have a lot of time to make...