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Syed Nesar Ahmad, the husband of a Harvard assistant professor, was among the victims of Friday's bloody hijacking attempt in Pakistan, University officials announced yesterday...
Hijackers Ibrahim Fatyer Abdelatif, 20, and Ahmad Marrouf al Assadi, 24, were sentenced respectively to 24 years and two months and 15 years and two months. Assadi cooperated with authorities and was not present when the verdict was read...
...country's 35 million eligible voters went to the polls, compared with 59% in 1970 and about 57% in 1977. But in selecting the 209 members of the new National Assembly, the voters dealt a rebuff to Zia by defeating six members of his Cabinet, including Defense Minister Ali Ahmad Talpur...
...tankers carrying its oil, has taken out its frustrations on Iraq's Arab allies. With the expansion of the conflict, Kuwait sees the good life it has carved out for itself endangered by a war it does not consider its own. Asserts Foreign Minister Sheik Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, the state's Foreign Minister: "The war is on our doorstep, and we feel the dangers more than others...
...Soviet army's seventh and most punishing assault on Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley this spring was in many respects an exercise in frustration. Moscow was determined to bring down Ahmad Shah Massoud, 30, a resourceful leader of the mujahedin, who have been defying the Soviets ever since they invaded the country in 1979. But only five days before the beginning of the Soviet operation, code-named Goodbye Massoud, the mujahedin commander suddenly slipped away from his headquarters and went into hiding. The following week the Soviets claimed Massoud was dead. Within hours, the rebel leader's voice...