Word: pakistans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national radio and television address. In an apparent reference to Taraki, Amin rejected "one-person rule" and announced that certain enemies of the people had been "eliminated." He promised to introduce the principle of habeas corpus, to guarantee complete religious freedom, and to reduce frictions with neighboring Iran and Pakistan, which harbors some 185,000 antigovernment Afghan refugees...
...fundamental change in their relationship. There followed what Kissinger calls "an intricate minuet, so stylized that neither side needed to bear the onus of an initiative, so elliptical that existing relationships on both sides were not jeopardized." The complex maneuvers began paying off. In October 1970, Nixon asked Pakistan's President Yahya Khan, who was about to visit Peking, to let the Chinese know that the U.S. was ready to improve relations...
...delay of three to four months. Meanwhile, the caretaker government can only administer existing laws. Without a Parliament, it cannot initiate policy. Yet India is in desperate need of firm government to tackle urgent economic problems, including inflation currently running at 15%. To add to India's troubles, Pakistan has not abandoned its efforts to acquire an enriched-uranium plant, a crucial step in developing the so-called Islamic Abomb...
...taken operational control over many aspects of Afghan political life. That fact had an extremely unsettling effect on the Iranian government, which interpreted our acquiescence in it as potential collusion between us and the Soviet Union in creating spheres of influence. It also had an unsettling effect on Pakistan. I do not want to imply, though, that there was much we could have done about it locally. But the fact that the coup in Afghanistan seemed to have no influence on our relationship with the Soviet Union was upsetting to others in the region...
Neglected by the U.S. for years and surrounded by hostile powers like the U.S.S.R. and India, Pakistan has no choice but to make the Islamic Bomb...