Historical Dictionary of Pakistan

CHRONOLOGY • xliAhmad Mukhtar—into the Cabinet. 26 February: Western governmentsannounced pledges amounting to $2.5 billion to support the developmentplan. 26 May: President Farooq Leghari visited Washington and heldtalks with senior U.S. officials. 5 June: Murtaza Bhutto, the brother ofPrime Minister Benazir Bhutto, was released from jail. 6 June: TheBhutto government announced the budget for the 1994-95 financial year.26 June: The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industrywent on strike to protest government budget proposals. 25 August:The government announced plans to expel one million immigrants ofAfghan, Burmese, Bangladeshi, Indian, and Iranian origin who had settledin Karachi. 1 September: Bhutto decided against visiting Gaza withoutpermission from Israel. 11 September: Opposition launched “oustBhutto” campaign with a train march from Karachi to Peshawar. 21 September:A strike call by opposition leader Mian Nawaz Sharif resulted inwidespread violence and disruption of economic activity. 30 September:Sixty persons were reported killed in Karachi in MQM-related violence.10 October: Some 1,100 opponents of Benazir Bhutto were arrested bythe government. 18 October: The army was called out in Karachi after13 persons were killed in sectarian violence involving the Sunni and Shiacommunities. 31 October: Eighty-four persons were reported to havebeen killed during the month in MQM-associated violence. 12 November:Suffering a major diplomatic defeat, Pakistan was forced to withdrawa resolution on Kashmir tabled at the UN General Assembly. 13 November:Mian Muhammad Sharif, Nawaz Sharif’s father, was arrested.30 November: One-hundred-four persons were reported killed during themonth in MQM-related violence. 4 December: Muhammad Salahuddin,editor of the Urdu newspaper Takbeer, was shot dead outside his office inKarachi. 31 December: One-hundred-sixty-eight persons were reportedkilled during the month in MQM-related violence.1995 10–12 January: U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry visitedPakistan. 12 January: Khalid Latif, chairman of Allied Bank, Pakistan’ssecond largest private-sector bank, was arrested by the government. 16January: India rejected preconditions set by Pakistan for the resumptionof bilateral talks on Kashmir. 31 January: Ninety-two persons were reportedto have been killed during the month in MQM-related violence. 12February: Ramzi Youssef, the main suspect in the terrorist bombing ofthe World Trade Center in New York, was arrested in Islamabad and immediatelydeported to the United States. 18 February: Opposition leader