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BAHAWALPUR, Pakistan--Air, force teams yesterday recovered the bodies of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel from the charred wreckage of Zia's military plane...
Soldiers slid the flag-draped coffins of Zia, Raphel and 28 others onto planes bound for Islamabad and other Pakistani cities where relatives of the victims were waiting. The government originally put the death toll...
Ishaq Khan declared a state of emergency today and businesses were shuttered in official mourning for Zia. It was not immediately clear what civil rights were curtailed by the state of emergency...
...funeral for Zia, a close U.S. ally, was set for Saturday. The U.S. Embassy said Secretary of State George P. Shultz would attend...
...Zia justified his actions by charging that Junejo had allowed the spread of crime and had failed to promote adherence to Islamic law. Few Pakistanis accepted that explanation. The real reason appeared to be Junejo's efforts to exert civilian control over the armed forces. Zia promised that parliamentary elections would be held within 90 days. Opposition Leader Benazir Bhutto -- daughter of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom Zia permitted to be hanged in 1979 -- declared that her Pakistan People's Party was "ready to go to the people...