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NUKES FOR PAKISTAN? Even as it served as a cash conduit for terrorists, money launderers and gunrunners, B.C.C.I. may have financed the illicit development of nuclear weapons programs. The U.S. last week pressed efforts to extradite Inam ul-Haq, a retired Pakistani brigadier, on charges that he masterminded an abortive 1987 plot to smuggle to Pakistan an American speciality steel used to enrich weapons-grade uranium. B.C.C.I reportedly provided credit for the deal. But Pakistan, home of B.C.C.I. founder Agha Hasan Abedi, denied -- as it has in the past -- that it seeks to develop nuclear arms, and said the government...
Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto '73, who was the first woman to lead an Islamic state, spoke in 1989. She is the daughter of deposed Prime Minister Zulfikar Bhutto, who was overthrown in a military coup by Gen. Zia ul-Haq and later executed...
...business on careful attention to the needs of top-drawer customers. In the bank's early days, B.C.C.I. officials in London could be roused in the middle of the night to make good on visiting sheiks' gambling losses. Abedi cultivated the friendship of former Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq and other Third World leaders. "He was a collector of people," says a Pakistani journalist who has followed Abedi. "He used Zia as a calling card...
During the century after Muhammad's death in 632, Muslim conquerors established sway from Spain to the borders of India. Islamic scholars of the era emphasized militaristic verses of the Koran over those that counsel peacemaking. Muslims spoke of the earth as being divided between the dar ul- Islam (realm of Islam) and the dar ul-harb (realm of war), implying a need for ongoing combat to extend the faith's domain. In succeeding centuries, as Muslims consolidated a multinational empire, the language of militant jihad faded...
...problem." There is a wide range of political beliefs within the anti-war movement, so no one agenda will be acceptable to all. In our opinion, the U.S. government is the most powerful force stifling democracy and upholding the dictators and autocrats of the region (i.e., the Shah, Zia Ul-Haq, King Fahd, Hafez Assad and before August, Saddam Hussein himself...