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...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...
...buried at the family cemetery near Larkana (pop. 123,000) in Sind province. Shahnawaz, 27, the youngest of Bhutto's four children, was found dead in his French Riviera apartment on July 18. He had once helped organize a terrorist group dedicated to overthrowing the regime of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, and the Bhutto family insists that he was murdered. His funeral turned into a defiant show of opposition to Zia's military rule...
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...
Pakistan reportedly received hundreds of millions of dollars for Project 706 from Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who in return was permitted to send his scientists to study Pakistan's enrichment advances. Nominally, the Libyan payments were made in return for Pakistani military assistance. Then, in 1977, after Zia came to power, Libya's connection with Project 706 was cut. Zia disliked and distrusted Gaddafi, and turned instead to Saudi Arabia for financial assistance. Saudi Arabia's payments were officially rendered in return for Pakistani military help...
Throughout the last few years of the Pakistani saga, the Reagan Administration has been severely criticized in Congress for giving military assistance to the Zia government without extracting further concrete assurances about Pakistan's nuclear program. The official U.S. position remains that Pakistan does not have atomic weapons and has not assembled the nuclear explosives to make them. But a top U.S. official says that the Administration remains "concerned" about Pakistan's efforts to obtain weapons technology. Washington discounts Indian suspicions of Pakistan's nuclear intentions as part of the long-standing rivalry between those two countries. Says a State...