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In 1971, while she was at Harvard, Zulfikar invited her to join him in New York City, where he was involved in a United Nations Security Council meeting on that year's Indo-Pakistani War. [46] In December 1971, Zulfikar assumed the presidency of Pakistan, the first democratically elected leader after 13 years of military rule. [47]
Killed by a car bomb planted by unidentified militant Thomas Sankara: President of Burkina Faso: October 15, 1987: Ouagadougou Burkina Faso: Soldiers under the command of Gilbert Diendéré: René Moawad: President of Lebanon: November 22, 1989: Beirut Lebanon: Killed by a car bomb Ahmed Abdallah: President of the Comoros: November 26, 1989 ...
August-November: Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi heads Pakistan's first caretaker government after Benazir Bhutto's dismissal. [3] October: The United States cuts off aid to Pakistan under suspicion that Pakistan is developing nuclear weapons. [4] [5]
The Bangladesh Liberation War against the country West Pakistan began on 26 March 1971, grew into the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, and ended with the victory of Bangladesh on 16 December 1971. On 14 December, sensing imminent defeat, Pakistani forces and their local collaborators— Al-Badr —abducted and killed front-line Bengali intellectuals ...
81 high-level insurgent leaders and thousands of low-level insurgents killed [123] Large number of insurgents killed while some fled to Afghanistan [124] Most recent drone strike launched in January 2018 [125] Fifth Balochistan Conflict (2004–present) [126] Pakistan: BLA BLF LeB BLUF BSO (Azad) BNA (2022–2023) BRA (2006–2022) UBA (2013 ...
(Reuters) - Detroit police said on Wednesday they had arrested a suspect in the stabbing death of synagogue leader and Democratic Party adviser Samantha Woll, whose death on Oct. 21 rocked ...
Benazir Bhutto, September 2004. Bhutto had opted for self-exile while her court cases for corruption remained pending in foreign and Pakistani courts. [14] After eight years in exile in Dubai and London, Bhutto returned to Karachi on 18 October 2007 to prepare for the 2008 national elections, allowed by a possible power-sharing deal with President Pervez Musharraf.
Farrakhan, 90, who leads the Nation of Islam, a religious group founded in Detroit in 1930, spoke for three and half hours to a crowd in the main hall at Huntington Place that appeared to be ...