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Week of April 25, 1997
The government offered rewards for help in unearthing assets of officials gained through corruption. An announcement urged citizens to "Do your national duty" by providing the evidence. Ten percent of the wealth recovered will go to the informers. The move came two days after 87 senior officers were suspended for corrupt practices on April 9.Week of April 18, 1997
The government scrambled to ship wheat to the northwest and southwest after food riots broke out. Authorities blamed the shortages on the previous administration, citing poorly timed import schedules, hoarding and smuggling into Afghanistan as reasons for being unable to fill this year's 2-million ton shortfall.Week of March 14, 1997
For the first time in two decades, government offices and privately owned businesses will be open on Friday. PM Nawaz Sharif ordered the change to put Pakistan in step with Western nations. Pakistan's largest religious party, Jamaat-i-Islami, protested the move.Week of March 7, 1997
Tehran asked Islamabad to quickly arrest and punish the gunmen who attacked Iran's cultural center in the central Pakistan city of Multan on Feb. 20. Seven people died. Last month a crowd of Sunni Muslims attacked the Iranian cultural center in Lahore.Week of February 28, 1997
In her handover speech to parliament, former PM Benazir Bhutto cryptically warned that Islamabad has "a response" to India's nuclear-capable Prithvi missile. The warning was a try to derail Indo-Pakistan talks proposed by her successor Nawaz Sharif.Week of January 24, 1996
At least 30 people were killed and nearly 950 injured Jan. 8 after a truck carrying drums of chlorine gas slid into a ditch in a densely populated slum area in Lahore. Army personnel evacuated hundreds from the district. Many more fled in panic from the toxic fumesNews from Pakistan in 1996
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