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...hand for this display was an impressive lineup of dignitaries, including Jordan's King Hussein, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, India's Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq and the Crown Princes of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the major gulf states. They had come to Muscat, the capital of Oman, to mark the 15th anniversary of Sultan Qaboos bin Said's accession to power and to celebrate his transformation of Oman into a prosperous nation courted by the West for its strategic location at the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the non-Communist...
...announcement was expected, but it came with an unanticipated bonus. In a nationally televised session of Parliament, President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, standing before a portrait of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's founding father, proclaimed an end last week to 8½ years of martial law. As legislators banged their desks in approval, Zia concluded his speech with the rallying cry "Long live the era of democracy!" Opposition politicians, expecting the move, had already labeled Zia's latest steps toward democracy a "fraud." Perhaps in anticipation of so skeptical a response, the wily soldier-politician sprang a surprise: he ended...
...late Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances on the French Riviera last month. Thousands of others were trying to reach the area in the expectation that the funeral would be held this week. But Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq was taking no chances that the outpouring of sympathy for the Bhutto family would turn into a huge and possibly unmanageable political demonstration. Zia conveyed his condolences to young Bhutto's mother, then placed military forces on alert in Sind province, the traditional political turf of Bhutto and his Pakistan People's Party...
...hectic swirl of diplomatic activity, Reagan also met with such Third World leaders as President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq of Pakistan and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India, and for 30 minutes, following then" speeches on Thursday, with Shevardnadze. At a jammed reception on Wednesday night, the President shook hands with scores of other foreign dignitaries, including Nicaraguan Leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra. "Hello," said Reagan stiffly to the leader he once called "a little man in green fatigues." "Thank you for inviting me," replied Ortega, who the next day denounced the President's remarks about Nicaragua as "full of lies...
...toddler, Mirwais showed no interest in music. It wasn't until he was 6, a year after his father's death, that anyone even heard him sing. According to Nur-ul-Haq, Mirwais had never hummed or whistled until the day when he climbed a pomegranate tree in the garden and sang to his mother. His voice was a revelation. She immediately apprenticed him to a music teacher, Ustaad Amin Jan Mazari, who listened to him and took him on for free. In the South Asian tradition of gurus and disciples, Mirwais lived with his teacher "like a son," recalls...