Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foreign intelligence agencies, says TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller. On the U.S. side, the CIA, FBI and even the FAA worked together -- agencies that "don't always get along," Waller notes. But U.S. authorities were also helped by a close relationship they've built up in recent years with Pakistani authorities, Shannon says. "We had many dealings with them during the Afghan war against the Russians," says Shannon...
...Pakistani student Hasnain Aslam '96, an Engineering and Economics concentrator living in adams House, the Internet provides specialized sports coverage...
...what the government called a Muslim extremist plot against Pope John Paul II, who was visiting Manila as part of a four-nation tour of Asia. Manila press reports said police are searching for about 20 foreigners in the alleged conspiracy, which reportedly targeted U.S. airlines. Two Pakistani men allegedly involved in the plot were arrested last Friday near the residence of the Vatican ambassador. Police sources told Manila reporters that the men had bomb-making materials in their hotel rooms. Police reportedly are now seeking a 26-year-old Kuwaiti-born "electronics expert" believed to be the ringleader...
Soon after, the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, Najmuddin Sheikh, phoned Dr. Nafis Sadik, executive director of the U.N. Population Fund and one of the conference's main organizers. The Pakistani official had bad news: concerned about opposition at home, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was reconsidering her decision to attend the conference. Sadik knew that Bhutto's absence could be especially damaging. Not only was she to deliver a keynote speech, but she would also be the only female head of a Muslim country in attendance. Prime Ministers Tansu Ciller of Turkey and Begum Khaleda Zia of Bangladesh had both backed...
...Vatican emerged as the lone dissenter over a compromise version of the U.N. population document on abortion, drawing a chorus of boos at the Cairo meeting from other countries' delegates who felt they'd already made big concessions to the Church. The Pakistani-drafted text, which expressed reservations over abortion, found favor with Iran and other Islamic allies of the Vatican's anti-abortion stance. It also drew no objections from Catholic countries. But the Holy See was unwilling to endorse a document with phrases such as "reproductive health" and "fertility regulation," which it considers veiled references to abortion...