Word: pakistanis
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...warning chilled Japanese booksellers in Tokyo who last week began selling a translation of Rushdie's work. When Gianni Palma, who arranged the publication and promotion of the book, tried to speak at a press conference, he was attacked by a Pakistani...
...huge rally in Sialkot, Pakistan, to mark a nationwide strike protesting India's crackdown on Muslims in the state of Jammu and Kashmir who are agitating for independence or merger with Pakistan. Afterward, about 4,000 people marched to the village of Suchetgarh and threatened to cross into India. Pakistani rangers tried to stop them, but 150 protesters pushed through, chanting anti-India slogans and setting fire to bushes and grass. Indian border troops warned the encroachers, then fired, killing three and wounding twelve...
India also claims, with more substantiation, that Pakistan has interfered by encouraging the Kashmiri insurgents. The two-month-old government of Prime Minister V.P. Singh was infuriated last week when Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto abandoned her reticence on the issue and, in response to public pressure, voiced support for the militant Kashmiris. U.N. observers have reported a sharp increase in shooting incidents in recent months along the heavily fortified cease-fire line that separates the Indian and Pakistani parts of Kashmir. Pakistani soldiers attribute the sniping to jittery Indians; the Indians in turn blame the Pakistanis...
While Bhutto still adheres to the liberal democratic ideals that many Pakistanis found so attractive in the 1988 election, her judgment has often been carried away by the vengeful currents of Pakistani politics, especially the fury of those in her People's Party who were cruelly oppressed under Zia. Among the party's first acts after coming to power was a campaign to bribe and threaten legislators in Punjab, an opposition-ruled province where more than 60% of Pakistanis live. The goal: to overthrow Bhutto's nemesis, Mian Nawaz Sharif, Punjab's chief minister, a wealthy industrialist and a crony...