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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.
Pakistani war criminals (1 C, 4 P) B. 1971 Bangladesh genocide (4 C, 57 P) M. Massacres committed by Pakistan (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Pakistani war crimes"
On 13 June 1993, an element of the Pakistani contingent of UNOSOM II opened fire with a machine gun onto a crowd of protestors in Mogadishu, Somalia, shooting approximately 70 Somalis. At least 20 people were killed in the attack, including women and children, and more than 50 others were wounded.
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq [a] (12 August 1924 – 17 August 1988) was a Pakistani military officer who served as the 6th president of Pakistan from 1978 until his death in 1988. He rose to prominence after leading a coup on 5 July 1977, which overthrew the democratically elected government of prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
Kang Kek Iew was formally charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity and detained by the Tribunal on 31 July 2007. [82] He was indicted on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity on 12 August 2008. [83] His appeal was rejected on 3 February 2012, and he continued serving a sentence of life imprisonment. [84]
The International Crimes Tribunal (Bangladesh) (ICT of Bangladesh) is a domestic war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh set up in 2009 to investigate and prosecute suspects for the genocide committed in 1971 by the Pakistan Army and their local collaborators Razakars, Al-Badr and Al-Shams during the Bangladesh Liberation War. [1]
August-November: Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi heads Pakistan's first caretaker government after Benazir Bhutto's dismissal. [3] November: Jatoi's caretaker government ends following general elections in November which see Nawaz Sharif and the IJI come to power. [4] Mehrangate; March: Imran Khan and his team wins Pakistan's first Cricket World Cup in 1992
People of Pakistan who were not aware of their crimes due to censorship by the Yahya regime, openly welcomed their trials and even supported their public execution. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] [ 48 ] Delwar Hossain Sayeedi , the Nayeb-e-Ameer of Jamaat , was convicted of eight charges of war crimes and alleged to be a member of the Razakars, was sentenced to ...