Word: hamida
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...response among opposition politicians to Zia's initiative was mixed. Hamida Khuhro, a Sindhi nationalist leader, said the end of martial law "was a welcome first step." Benazir Bhutto, daughter of the executed former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and self-exiled leader of the Pakistan People's Party, the largest opposition party, denounced the move. "An act of political camouflage," she called it in a statement from her home in southern France. But other M.R.D. leaders, apparently caught off guard by the lifting of the state of emergency, had no public reaction to Zia's speech...