Word: peshawar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...killed by rebellious villagers, MiGs have been sent in on retaliatory bombing raids. But after dark, the mujahidin rule the rebel areas. "Our men bring their guns down from the mountains after the sun sets," says Abdur Rahim, a former government bureaucrat who now coordinates rebel activities out of Peshawar, a provincial capital in the northwest. "The war is like a good love af fair. All the action happens at night...
Another violent showdown may be near. Last week National Awami Leader Khan Abdul Wali Khan demanded that Bhutto reinstate the governors. "We will take these rights by force if they are not conceded by will," he told a huge angry crowd in Peshawar. Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo, the ousted Baluchistan governor, called on the National Assembly to halt the military's interference: "I would like to inform the public that the army action will destroy the unity of what remains of Pakistan forever," he said. Even Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party was divided. The P.P.P. governor...
...Troops and militia were called out after striking policemen looted shops, cut telephone lines, beat up politicians and fought students in Lahore and Peshawar. The cops were demanding higher pay and an end to interference and high-handedness by members of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party...
...change of power came none too soon, for Yahya had found himself the principal target of a terrible national fury. In Peshawar, an angry mob burned him in effigy and set aflame a house they thought he owned. Outside President's House in Rawalpindi, a band of sobbing wives and sisters of captured Pakistani soldiers threw down their gold and silver bangles in a bitter symbolic gesture: Yahya had taken their men, so now he could have their jewelry...
Mujib was flown to West Pakistan, where he is reported held in Attock Fort near Peshawar. As an activist who had already spent nine years and eight months in jail, he may have reasoned at the time of his arrest that his political goals would be served by the martyrdom of further imprisonment. But he obviously did not expect to face a treason charge and possible execution. Only two months earlier, after all, President Yahya had referred to him as "the next Prime Minister of Pakistan...