Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highly publicized campaign to strengthen Islamic values in Pakistani society has proved deeply divisive. He sees it as the only means of unifying the country's disparate ethnic groups, but the drive has alienated the intelligentsia and students, who deplore strictures on female behavior and on the use of alcohol. Zia's detractors go so far as to link the Increased number of youthful drug addicts in Pakistan, estimated to be as high as 50,000, to the rigidity of the Islamic code. They also note that although classical Arabic has been introduced to school curriculums, Pakistan...
...Andropov's meetings with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq and Afghan President Babrak Karmal produce any movement toward a settlement in Afghanistan...
There were no national anthems, no 21-gun salutes. Nonetheless, last week as Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi strode onto the tarmac at New Delhi airport to greet Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq last week, the occasion was momentous. Since the partitioning of Pakistan from India 35 years ago, relations between the Asian subcontinent's two major powers have been soured by three wars, border clashes and a legacy of bitterness and suspicion. Remarked a senior Indian official: "This is a historic moment...
Somewhere across the border, the Pakistanis are said to have their own listening post tuned to what is happening in Iran and. assuredly, the operations at the Soviet station. What is more, the Pakistanis reportedly have sent patrols into Iran to learn more about the flurry of activity, just as the Iranians are said to be sending their own scouts across the border. Early last December, two Soviet intelligence agents were killed during a chance encounter with a Pakistani intelligence unit patrolling the border. At about the same time, Salim Ahmed, a Pakistani spy who had ventured into Iranian territory...
...place to look for the Soviets, TIME has learned, is 300 miles north in a remote corner of Baluchistan, near Zahedan, where the Iranian, Pakistani and Afghan frontiers meet to form a triangular no man's land. For centuries, the mountainous border area had been controlled by fierce Baluchi tribesmen, who freely traverse the borders of the three countries. The area is also used by opium smugglers and roamed by packs of wild, emaciated desert dogs...