Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart transplant, built his business on careful attention to the needs of top-drawer customers. In the bank's early days, B.C.C.I. officials in London could be roused in the middle of the night to make good on visiting sheiks' gambling losses. Abedi cultivated the friendship of former Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq and other Third World leaders. "He was a collector of people," says a Pakistani journalist who has followed Abedi. "He used Zia as a calling card...
Bhutto fought back. She derided her dismissal as a "constitutional coup" and labeled the charges against herself and her husband "persecution." But the appeal to Pakistani emotions did not work this time; instead, she seems to have been dragged down by the corruption charges. Said Hussain Haqqani, spokesman for the Islamic Democratic Alliance: "The nation is sick of the cycle of martial law and the Bhuttos. The cycle has to be broken...
...Islamabad the caretaker government of Prime Minister Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi was startled by the aid cutoff. Some Pakistani officials do not believe Washington is serious, because it needs Islamabad's help in the gulf. Others chalk it up to irritation on Capitol Hill at the dismissal of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on corruption charges. If elections are open and fair, they believe, the "political problems in Washington" will ease...
Each day at noon, huge lines form behind relief trucks carrying the daily rations of pita bread, tomatoes, cucumbers and cheese. Beneath a tarp of sheets and blankets, Mashama Nawaz, 35, a Pakistani, sits with his wife and three children. His daughter, only two, sleeps on the ground, as relatives try to keep her cool. "Yesterday they gave me one piece of bread and three tomatoes," says Nawaz. "I kept telling them I have children to feed, and they kept saying 'We are sorry...
...Senators who advocated a cutoff in Washington's almost $600 million-a-year aid to Pakistan in response to what they called a "quasi- military coup." But U.S. diplomats said the real test would be Ishaq's ability to deliver on his promise of elections, a commitment that previous Pakistani Presidents have broken far more often than...