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In 1990 Nawaz Sharif was elected prime minister after the incumbent Benazir Bhutto faced corruption charges, and in 1991 she sought to delegitimize his election. Although the end of United States foreign aid in October 1990 affected the economy, Pakistan’s GDP nonetheless rose 5.6% and exports and foreign investment grew over the 1990-1991 ...
[10] ~1,836 militants were killed in Operation Zarb-e-Azb. 2014 2,613 [1] [2] Total deaths by regions can be found here:. [10] 2,168 militants were killed in Operation Zarb-e-Azb. 40 militants were killed by the Pakistani military in crackdowns, after Tehrik-i-Taliban carried out a terrorist attack on civilian targets at a school. [5] 2013 ...
Singapore Airlines Flight 117 was a Singapore Airlines flight that was hijacked en route by four Pakistani terrorists on 26 March 1991.. The aircraft landed in Singapore. The hijackers, who claimed to be members of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), demanded the release of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto's husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who later became President of Pakistan, as ...
The War Crimes Act 1991 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It confers jurisdiction on courts in the United Kingdom to try people for war crimes committed in Nazi Germany or German-occupied territory during the Second World War by people who were not British citizens at the time but have since become British citizens or residents.
Pakistani war criminals (1 C, 4 P) B. 1971 Bangladesh genocide (4 C, 58 P) M. Massacres committed by Pakistan (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Pakistani war crimes"
9 July: Mohmand Agency bombing, 104 killed. 16-19 June: Pakistan navy executes Operation Umeed-e-Nuh against Somali pirates. 3–6 August: 2010 Karachi riots after the assassination of MP Raza Haider killed 90. September: 2010 Pakistan floods. At least 1,600 people were killed. 1 September: September 2010 Lahore bombings, 38 killed.
Of all the violent political deaths in the twentieth century, none with such great interest to the U.S. has been more clouded than the mysterious air crash that killed president (and Army Chief General) Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan in (August) 1988, a tragedy that also claimed the life of the serving American ambassador and most of Zia's top ...
Amjad Farooqi was an alleged mastermind behind these attempts, and was killed by Pakistani forces in 2004 after an extensive manhunt. [ 173 ] [ 174 ] On 6 July 2007, there was another attempted assassination, when an unknown group fired a 7.62 submachine gun at Musharraf's plane as it took off from a runway in Rawalpindi .