Word: zia
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...campaign showed that the Soviets are apparently determined to shut down the clandestine CIA arms pipeline from Pakistan that feeds the Afghan guerrillas. They also probably intended the assault as intimidation against the government of Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who has provided staging areas for guerrilla forces...
...dealing with some other Third World leaders, Gorbachev has shown the iron teeth rather than the broad smile. He told Pakistan's Zia ul-Haq that continued Pakistani assistance to guerrillas battling Soviet troops in Afghanistan would affect relations with the U.S.S.R. "in the most negative way." Said Zia: "Gorbachev was twisting my arm." Zia did not yield...
Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq and Benazir Bhutto gave all appearances of having made a deal. Bhutto, the leader of the outlawed Pakistan People's Party, the most popular political movement in the country, was allowed to return to Pakistan from Britain last month for the burial of her brother Shahnawaz, who died under mysterious circumstances in the south of France last July. Her part of the deal was not to engage in antigovernment political activities during her visit. Last week, however, the bargain was called off and the charismatic Bhutto was placed under house arrest at the family...
...President's move was preceded by a flurry of political activity by Bhutto, the daughter of the former Pakistani leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was hanged by the Zia government in 1979. She received several opposition leaders at her Karachi home and called for a return to democracy. Then she insisted on visiting the families of two party activists hanged earlier this year after being convicted of murdering a pro-Zia politician. Before Bhutto could meet with them, the President decided he had had enough and ordered the police to turn her home into a prison...
Benazir, who is regarded as the heir to her father's leadership of the Pakistan People's Party, spent three years under house arrest in Pakistan before being allowed to travel to Britain. Zia allowed her to return only on condition that Shahnawaz's funeral not be used to rally antigovernment sentiment. The regime ordered an extraordinary show of force at Karachi airport for the arrival of the plane from Zurich bearing Benazir and her brother's remains. Nearly 1,000 heavily armed Pakistani security personnel, backed by armored paramilitary vehicles, set up roadblocks...