Word: pakistanis
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...India is indulging in genocide," charged Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto last week. She had just returned from a week-long tour of eight Middle Eastern countries, where she was seeking support for the Kashmiris' right to self-determination. While some Kashmiri militants favor an independent state of their own, Bhutto rejected that idea as "extremely dangerous." Kashmir's freedom, she insisted, was "the freedom to join Pakistan." In the process, she said, armed conflict with India could not be ruled out, "but we do not believe war is inevitable...
...least of all the principals, doubts that a fourth Indo-Pakistani war would be devastating. Some observers even fear that such a conflict could lead to the first use of nuclear weapons since 1945. India exploded its initial nuclear device in 1974, and Pakistan is widely believed to have a nuclear weapon. The catalyst for this potential catastrophe is the rebellion in the beautiful Vale of Kashmir, an 87-mile-long valley that is home to more than half the state's 7 million people -- 65% of them Muslim. There India faces a bloody insurgency and a runaway mass movement...
COMING SOON TO A THEATER NEAR YOU. Salman Rushdie: eyes bloody, enveloped in flames, struck dead by an angry god. The Ayatullah Khomeini tried to arrange this denouement but wasn't able to bring it off before his own death last year, so a Pakistani studio has produced a movie that features three mujahedin setting out on a Rambo-style trek to kill the offending author of The Satanic Verses. In his celluloid incarnation, Rushdie is depicted as a boozy member of a Jewish cabal who lives in a luxurious palace surrounded by plump Punjabi bimbos and who likes...
Kohl also becomes the fourth straight world leader--and the second German in four years--to deliver the Commencement address, following Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto '73, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias and West German President Richard von Weizsacker...
Recent Commencement speakers include Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir "Pinkie" Bhutto '73. Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez and Spanish King Juan Carlos...