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...remains firmly in control as President, but has allowed political parties to renew their activities. Indeed, last week the Punjab provincial government posted thousands of police near the P.P.P.'s motorcade and rally sites to make sure there would be no embarrassing incidents. The beefed-up security, however, did not prevent an apparently deranged retired army officer from bursting into a house where he thought Bhutto was staying, claiming that he wanted to marry her. "Just a simple legal ceremony will do," he told reporters. Bhutto hinted that the man might have been an assassin...
...honest and religious leader. The general commands respect, if not admiration, from many Pakistanis, and has been able to sustain healthy growth in the country's economy. Last week his backers sought to blunt the effect of Bhutto's return by awarding some political favors. Prime Minister Junejo and Punjab Chief Minister Nawaz Sharif announced that, effective immediately, new land would be granted to rural tenants and urban squatters and the price of cooking oil would be reduced...
Last week was supposed to have marked the traditional festivities celebrating the rites of spring. Instead, Indians suffered a convulsion of Hindu-Sikh violence that claimed at least 41 lives. The most alarming incident occurred in the northwestern state of Punjab, where at least seven people were killed and 27 injured when Sikh militants tried to assassinate the moderate Punjabi Chief Minister Surjit Singh Barnala during a political rally...
Unrest in the Indian state of Punjab took a dramatic turn last week. Thousands of militant Sikhs overwhelmed police barricades and tried to storm the state legislature in the city of Chandigarh. Paramilitary police drove the rioters off with tear gas and gunfire, killing two and injuring...
...militants demanded the release of all Sikhs imprisoned after the Indian army's assault on the Golden Temple in Amritsar in June 1984, and reinstatement of dismissed Sikh soldiers. In the past two weeks, at least 34 people, Hindus and Sikhs, have been slain in Punjab as a result of Sikh terrorist violence...