Word: zia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carter hope to befriend Pakistanis when he supports the regime of their Public Enemy No. 1, General Zia ul-Haq? It will be yet another folly on the part of Americans to seek a partnership with a military junta...
...Carter Administration, to become more amenable to U.S. efforts to protect them and help them put their houses in order. Perhaps the Saudis will be more receptive to American pressure for a crackdown on corruption, one of several slow-burning fuses in Riyadh. Perhaps Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq will allow the U.S. to push him more quickly toward restoring a broad-based democratic government...
...good would Pakistan's forces be against a Soviet incursion? Zia's answer was bold and unqualified. "As far as the Pakistan army is concerned," he told reporters last week, "it is capable of defending our borders against any aggression." That bravado is not necessarily shared by Pakistani military commanders stationed along the country's 800-mile frontier with Afghanistan. An entirely different assessment was given visiting British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington last week by Lieut. General Fazal e-Haq, commander of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier. Pointing across the legendary Khyber Pass toward Kabul, Fazal said...
...whose recruits are illiterate 16-and 17-year-old boys from rural backgrounds. Other observers note that the quality of noncommissioned officers is below par because of the inordinate time needed to educate them. In addition, the regular officer corps is below strength because the military regime installed by Zia in 1977 has drawn many top-ranking officers into the civil administration of the country...
...refugees in the Northwest Frontier province alone, many of whom are being sheltered by their tribal cousins in the area, but the countrywide total is expected to reach 1 million by April. This huge population of uprooted peoples represents a threat both to the Soviets and to Zia. The bitterly anti-Communist refugees have no love for the new regime in Kabul; the Pushtun tribesmen in the province have long chafed under Islamabad's callous rule...