Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your side." After lunching in the mess of the famed Khyber Rifles, Brzezinski was garlanded by area tribal chiefs and had his picture taken at the Khyber Pass, quipping that it would be "a historic picture-three weeks before the march on Kabul." He spotted a Pakistani soldier carrying a Chinese-made rifle and asked to see it fired. The heavy recoil knocked the embarrassed rifleman to the ground as the weapon sprayed bullets in all directions. "Any casualties?" asked Brzezinski only half in jest. Luckily, there were none...
...addition to the host, Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the most influential voice at the conference was that of Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal. Arriving in Islamabad, Saud emphasized that the conference must take a strong line on the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, which he said "threatened the independence of Muslim countries." He urged Islamic states to break diplomatic ties with Kabul, boycott the Moscow Olympics and provide assistance to the refugees. In the end, those points were included in the resolution, though only as recommendations. The final vote of the foreign ministers...
...northwest sections. Soviet correspondents reported that saboteurs were blowing up bridges and communications lines in several regions, forcing the Afghan army to remain on constant alert. Pravda admitted that the Afghan "bandits," as it refers to the rebels, remained active, adding: "Storm clouds hang over the republic from the Pakistani and the Chinese sides of the border. It is from there that a flow of weapons and propaganda [as well as] armed saboteurs and bandits are sent to Afghan territory." The Soviets also accused Pakistan of operating military training camps on its side of the Afghan border. The Pakistanis denied...
This does not mean, of course, that the area is beyond salvation. In a negative sense, Soviet aggression often brings a sobering new sense of the need for defensive action. The Saudi monarchy, the Pakistani military government and the crisis-prone leaders of Turkey may be sufficiently frightened by the example of Afghanistan, and impressed by the new look of the Carter Administration, to become more amenable to U.S. efforts to protect them and help them put their houses in order. Perhaps the Saudis will be more receptive to American pressure for a crackdown on corruption, one of several slow...
...mujahidin- Muslim "holy warriors"-had converged on the Pakistani city of Peshawar last week for a gathering of the clans aimed at solving one obstacle border the success of their insurgency in Afghanistan: disunity. Torn by tribal rivalries going back centuries, the rebels hoped to form an umbrella alliance of their six loose groupings comprising more than 60 different tribes. A united front, it was thought, would not only enable the guerrillas to mount coordinated, large-scale military actions. It could also attract sizable new international backing, especially from sympathetic Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia. Specifically, the tribes...