Word: rahim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When tanks and MiG aircraft zeroed in on their positions, the rebels fell back, taking an alarming number of casualties along the way. Reviewing the failed encounter, a frustrated Rahim Wardak, the battlefront commander of the National Islamic Front for Afghanistan, concluded that the battle that began more than three weeks ago "is turning into a stalemate...
...President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom Zia deposed and had executed in 1979. An American passenger on the ill-fated flight, Frederick Hubbell, 29, said the hijackers were "deliberately erratic. Sometimes they were kind, sometimes they became very brutal-after all, they killed a man." Their victim: Pakistani Diplomat Tariq Rahim, shot in full view of the other passengers and dumped on the tarmac at Kabul...
...stunning turnabout at the United Nations, meanwhile, a Kabul official sent to defend his government before a special meeting of the nonaligned countries defected instead and denounced the Soviet "occupation." The 33-year-old career diplomat, Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai, dramatically declared his support for his "compatriots in the liberation struggle...