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Week of June 4, 1999
KARACHI Manzoor Mughal, senior police superintendent of the Crime Investigation Agency and the No. 2 police officer in Karachi, was transferred - a move most likely linked to the injuries suffered by Asif Zardari, either self-inflicted or at the hands of his jailers. Mughal's departure is apparently the result of a dispute between Sindhi Governor Moinuddin Haider and police chief Rana Maqbool, who was publicly criticized by Haider. The government is investigating Zardari's case (he is the husband of former PM Benazir Bhutto) but so far has issued no reports on its findings. Zardari's supporters say the wounds to his mouth, arm and neck could only have been caused by another person and accuse the government of covering up torture.Week of May 28, 1999
ISLAMABAD Asif Ali Zardari, Benazir Bhutto's jailed husband, was slightly wounded with a broken drinking glass. The government says it was a suicide attempt. Bhutto supporters say the injury is the result of torture, which the government is covering up.Week of February 19, 1999
NEW DELHI India proposed Feb. 20 as the date for PM Atal Behari Vajpayee to travel to Pakistan on the inaugural Delhi-Lahore bus service.Week of February 12, 1999
ISLAMABAD Newsprint deliveries to the Jang newspaper group have been halted and its bank accounts frozen because it won't yield to official editorial pressure, the group's owners say. The government says they owe more than $40 million in unpaid taxes.Week of February 5, 1999
KARACHI Benazir Bhutto called on the military to remove the Nawaz Sharif government. Bhutto, ousted from power in 1996, is under investigation for corruption, wants new elections under a neutral administration to pull the country out of what she called "anarchy and chaos."Week of January 22, 1999
"WE WERE WORRIED ABOUT VIOLENCE, but it was peaceful all the way," Gurjit Singh, one of the passengers and chairman of the transportation commission for the Indian capital of New Delhi, said upon arriving in Pakistan. "We feel like we are coming home." Guarded by a heavily armed convoy, Indian officials made the 10-hour voyage across desert and over mountains on Jan. 8 on the first passenger bus in 50 years to run from India to Pakistan. The long-awaited trip was a trial run before scheduled service starts later this month. The link is one of the few concrete results of the otherwise disappointing series of negotiations by senior diplomats last year to try to resolve some of the rancor between the two countries.Week of January 15, 1999
SHAH JAMAL Gunmen opened fire on Shia Muslims at a mosque in Punjab province, killing 16. The attack took place as worshippers were finishing morning prayers that mark the start of their day-long fast in this the holy month of Ramadan. At least 10,000 people from both the Shia and majority Sunni communities gathered at the funeral for the victims the following day. They chanted slogans of amity and condemned the authorities for failing to provide security from sectarian attacks.BANGALORE PM Atal Behari Vajpayee told a public meeting that India would demand the return of one-third of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir in any talks on the future of the disputed northern province.
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