Word: zia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young Bhutto was making a significant impression on her colleagues at Oxford, her father was facing powerful opposition at home. Only weeks after she graduated from the University, the elder Bhutto was overthrown in a military coup in 1977 by Gen. Mohammad Zia ul-Haq and was executed two years later...
Bhutto spent her five years after Oxford in and out of jail because of her outspoken criticism of Zia and his military regime. Even though she was placed under house arrsest in solitary confinement, she continued to organize the Pakistan People's Party to fight the military dictator's government...
...Zia used the military to run Pakistan under strict Islamic laws, often oppressive to women and minorities, and he regularly denied political prisoners the right to a fair trial...
Following Zia's sudden death in a plane crash last August, Bhutto began a cross-country campaign to gain the post of prime minister, promising to safeguard human rights, lift restrictions on the freedom of the press and improve the education and well-being of the country's poor...
...Under Zia's rule, the U.S. enjoyed good diplomatic relations with the strategically located Muslim nation. When Bhutto--the daughter of the late Pakistani prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto--first came to power, many were unsure what her policy toward the U.S. would be, because her father had not aligned the country's policies with the West. But most believe the initial signs from Bhutto have been good...