Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pakistani province of Baluchistan, roughly the size of Montana or Finland, has long been considered a target of opportunity for the Soviet Union. Nestled next to Iran and Afghanistan, both of which have large Baluchi populations, the province has a 471-mile-long coast on the Arabian Sea. Gwadar, its principal port, sits at the entrance to the Persian Gulf and the oil lanes to the West. Moscow's intervention in Afghanistan has renewed fears of Soviet subversion in the province, where disaffected separatists have long been agitating for regional autonomy. TIME New Delhi Bureau Chief Marcia Ganger last...
Afghan Pushtuns condemn the oppression of their siblings in Pakistan, and this sentiment has long curdled relations with that state. But now we and the Pakistanis have become fast, friends. Thousands of Afghans are massing inside the Pakistani border. Here and There ejaculates, "The Afghans are a very sociable people and love to concoct reasons for getting together, no matter how feeble these may be." This time, though, the reasons are imperative. All we ask of Americans is that you satisfy Zbigniew Brzezinski's desire to give the Pakistanis arms we can shoulder in our struggle...
...such admissions of American guilt or provocation, even the much more destructive episode in Viet Nam or Nixon's tilt toward Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh in 1971, are not part of Brzezinski's scheme. Nor does he take into account widespread American economic imperialism, often depriving Third World peasants even of the very soil under their feet (see Food First,) by Lappe and Collins). All evil is from the Soviet camp, he argues. Therefore he will not apologize to Iran even for the sake of 50 American lives; and when I asked him why not, after his talk, he cited...
...Pakistani capital, the U.S. team talked with Military Strongman Mohammed Zia ul-Haq about how to protect Pakistan from the Soviet threat along its 1,400-mile border with Afghanistan. Brzezinski and Christopher reassured Zia that the U.S. intended to come to Pakistan's aid in the event of a Soviet invasion. Though they failed to agree on an aid package, the Pakistani general seemed very interested in a pledge of defense. At the outset, Zia asked for a treaty with the U.S. that would protect Pakistan from all of its neighbors. Such a pact could conceivably oblige...
...details, however, learned there was a 30-hour gap from the time of the first "mysterious explosions" to the ship's final descent. Then a Liberian official charged that the 42-year-old captain was not even a certified master: he was carrying the forged license of a Pakistani engineer. One year earlier, moreover, Georgoulis was allegedly involved in the mysterious sinking of a freighter carrying sugar for Saudi Arabia that was blown up off the coast of Lebanon...