Word: baluchistan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pakistani official: "If the Shah, with all his might and wealth, can't keep the lid on, that will only encourage elements here who would like to see us come apart at the seams." Warns a high-ranking Iranian: "If the Pakistanis start to have really serious trouble with Baluchistan [a province in the west of the country whose tribal population is demanding autonomy], you mark my words, we're going to have trouble with our own Baluch minority on our side of the border...
...years been patiently pursuing a plot to use Afghanistan as a base for stirring up trouble in the Baluch areas of Iran and Pakistan. These observers claim that they have seen a map, drawn in Moscow and secured by the Iranian intelligence service, showing a Greater Baluchistan that would connect the U.S.S.R. with the Arabian Sea. Similarly, an Islamabad diplomat refers darkly to the "Moscow-Kabul-Delhi axis." The Russians, he insists, "are now at the Khyber Pass." Certainly this is an exaggeration if not a delusion. It is also self-serving. The Pakistanis would like nothing better than...
...other things, the opposition had demanded that the government act to reinforce Pakistan's character as an Islamic state. Last week Bhutto announced that he would introduce legislation to ban alcohol, gambling and nightclubs. He also offered to hold new elections for provincial assemblies in the Punjab, Sind, Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier. If the National Alliance got a majority of votes in the polling, Bhutto promised, he would then dissolve the National Assembly and order a new general election...
...overwhelming victory-taking 155 parliamentary seats, v. 36 for the National Alliance-was outrage and disbelief. General strikes called by the opposition shut down the cities of Lahore, Karachi, Hyderabad, Rawalpindi and the capital of Islamabad. National Alliance candidates boycotted the subsequent provincial elections in the Punjab, Sind, Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier, even though they were favored to win majorities in the last two provinces. In addition, the opposition demanded 1) Bhutto's resignation, 2) the disbanding of the election commission for failing to conduct a fair election, and 3) dissolution of the National Assembly pending...
...Soviet-backed parties in the Middle East. The recipients represent a who's who of revolutionary militant movements, starting with the P.L.O. and the Eritrean Liberation Front, dissident groups in the Gulf states, SWAPO and other smaller black African nationalist movements, and rebels in Pakistan's Baluchistan. The traffic reaches as far as Thailand and Burma. Its customers are not exclusively radical: some of the biggest and most lucrative orders have come from the embattled whites of Rhodesia...