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...Analysts aren't sure. Pakistan's major political parties?former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party and the Pakistan Muslim League?have rejected the referendum as unconstitutional. Voter turnout is likely to be spare, which could bring embarrassing comparisons to Pakistan's last military dictator, General Zia ul-Haq, whose 1984 referendum generated widespread apathy...
...Vincent Chin would be alive today if he were not Asian—there is no doubt about that,” said Helen Zia in the film. Zia was a key actor in the effort to secure harsher punishments for Ebens and Nitz...
...radical Islamist challenge in Pakistan originates, in its current form, with the regime of General Zia ul Haq, who ruled from 1977 until his death 1989. General Zia overthrew the elected leftist government of Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and began cultivating Islamist groups as a counterweight to the challenge from the left. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 made General Zia the key U.S. ally in the region, providing a staging ground for efforts to assist the Afghan mujahedeen - a process that dramatically expanded the conservative Islamist infrastructure in Western Pakistan with massive Saudi funding...
...BANGLADESH Opposition Victory The power struggle between two former women Prime Ministers continued after Begum Khaleda Zia swept to power and was immediately challenged by ousted leader Sheik Hasina Wazed. Unofficial results gave the alliance led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party two-thirds of the 300 seats in Parliament in a general election marred by violence but described by international monitors as "generally free and fair...
...insecurity, Pakistan was created as a homeland for India's Muslims?its very name means "land of the spiritually pure"?but Jinnah, who favored a pluralistic democracy, never envisioned a theocratic state. His successors had other ideas, and 30 years after Jinnah was gone, the military dictator General Zia ul-Haq shackled the country's fortunes to religion with a decade-long Islamization drive from which Pakistan has never recovered...