Word: rawalpindi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meeting in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, Muslim delegates to a shura, or consultative assembly, appeared set to nominate as Prime Minister of their "interim" government Ahmat Shah, 44, a U.S.-trained engineer and hard- line fundamentalist. Muhammad Nabi Muhammadi, 68, a former member of Afghanistan's parliament, was named to fill the largely ceremonial office of President. The shura thus managed to bridge, for the moment, the principal issue dividing the rebel side: whether post-Soviet Afghanistan should be governed as an Islamic revolutionary state, on the Iranian model, or as one that is moderate and secular. Shah strongly...
Afghanistan's only hope for a halt to the savagery rests with the shura, or consultative council, that convened in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi last Friday. The 526-member council is composed of representatives from the seven- party mujahedin alliance that operates out of Pakistan and the eight mujahedin parties based in Iran. Their aim is to designate an interim - government that would supplant the Najibullah regime. But last week's meeting, attended by 420 delegates, gave little cause for optimism. The council's session lasted just 40 minutes, then disintegrated into chaos over the question of just...
Somehow Bhutto must find ways to meet some of the expectations of the poor, who form the P.P.P.'s main constituency. In the raucous streets of Rawalpindi following her elevation, those hopes were ballooning beyond reality. Explained a P.P.P. election worker: "We've been denied everything for the past eleven years. Now it's our turn to get a share...
...Abrams tank, which he was interested in buying for his country's army. After spending the day observing the high-tech vehicle climb around the dunes, Zia, Raphel and a large entourage boarded a U.S.-built C-130 transport to fly back to the military airport at Rawalpindi, near Islamabad...
...staff, Pakistan's most powerful military post. A quiet man with an aloof manner, Baig is described by those who know him as a professional soldier with no political ambitions. Baig attended the tank trials along with Zia but had to make another stop on the way to Rawalpindi and therefore returned on a different plane. Unlike some other generals, Baig treated Junejo and his government with respect, and Western diplomats hope he will support a return to civilian rule. Few believe, however, that the military will readily give up its traditional prerogatives. One Western diplomat described the domination...