Word: zia
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Bhutto was hailed as a hero in 1988 after she became the first woman to lead a modern Moslem nation, restoring democracy to Pakistan after 11 years of military rule under Mohammad Zia ul-Haq. Last year, she spoke at Harvard's Commencement, where she was awarded an honorary degree...
Afterward, he marches up to the teacher, salutes and marches back to his place. Ahmad Zia says he wants to go to the front in June, and the teacher doesn't smile. The child is not being cute. "I want to fight the jihad." Asked to define jihad, he replies, "Jihad is to fight Russians...
Benazir Bhutto was one of the best political stories of the 1980s. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, she rallied from imprisonment and exile to return to Pakistan in 1986 and confront General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the country's military ruler and the man who executed her father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. When Zia's death in a mysterious plane crash in 1988 opened the way for Pakistan's first regular elections in a decade, Bhutto, only 35 and the mother of a two-month-old son, led her father's Pakistan People's Party through a raucous campaign...
While Bhutto still adheres to the liberal democratic ideals that many Pakistanis found so attractive in the 1988 election, her judgment has often been carried away by the vengeful currents of Pakistani politics, especially the fury of those in her People's Party who were cruelly oppressed under Zia. Among the party's first acts after coming to power was a campaign to bribe and threaten legislators in Punjab, an opposition-ruled province where more than 60% of Pakistanis live. The goal: to overthrow Bhutto's nemesis, Mian Nawaz Sharif, Punjab's chief minister, a wealthy industrialist and a crony...
...extravagant promises of the party manifesto and Pakistan's abysmal poverty and appalling 77% illiteracy rate, there is little time to waste. To make matters worse, Bhutto has expended much of her energy on disputes with President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, a cautious civil servant who was close to Zia...