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Murtaza Bhutto
The member of Benazir’s family who was killed in a mysterious police encounter at a walking distance from his residence in Clifton, Karachi.
Benazir Bhutto
She failed to have comfortable relations with President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, and sometimes she openly clashed with him.
Kashmiri guerrillas
The ________ crossed the LoC (Line of Control) and occupied the strategic Indian towns of Kargil and Drass in April 1999.
Benazir
________ faced serious opposition by her party in Sindh.
Nawaz Sharif
He was again elected as the Prime Minister in 1997.
13th amendment
annulled the 8th amendment, and restored the powers of the PM, and made President just a ceremonial head of the state.
SAARC platform
The ________ was also used to promote mutual ties.
Pucca Qila Massacre
Violence erupted in Karachi and other cities between September 1988 and May 1990 operation against the MQM in Hyderabad became a reason of dismissal of Benazir’s government.
Shariat Bill
Bill passed by Nawaz Sharif in May 1991, making the Quran and Sunnah the law of the land as long as it did not challenge the existing system of government.
Mr Agha Hasan Abedi
It was founded by ________ in 1972.
Musharraf
He declared military rule, not martial law, in Pakistan, in 1999
14th amendment
was passed as the Anti- Defection Bill that restrained the parliamentarians to switch loyalties in order to exploit a weak government.
Pakistani
Army had been instrumental in ________ politics for a long time, and Sharif made a desperate attempt to exclude army from political affairs.
Pakistan
________ rejoined the Commonwealth in October 1989 as ________ had been recognized as a country with a democratically elected government.
Cooperative societies
________ accepted deposits from members and gave loans to them for investment schemes.
Bank of Credit and Commerce International
was the world’s 7th largest bank operating in Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto
won a marginal majority in the 1988 elections
Benazir
________ also mismanaged the judiciary in the famous "judges case.
Pakistan
conducted nuclear blasts in response to the Indian nuclear testing the same month.
Cooperative Societies
accepted deposits from members and extended loans only to members for purposes that were beneficial for the Society.
Benazir Bhutto
She made an alliance with the MQM under the ‘ Charter of Peace, Love and Rights in December 1988.
Benazir Bhutto
was elected as the first woman Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1988 and served in office till 1990.
Pakistan
In May 1998, ________ conducted nuclear explosions.
Benazir
________ faced many problems after her election as PM for the second time in 1993.
Yellow cab scheme
The scheme introduced by Nawaz Sharif by giving loans to the unemployed youth to buy taxis.
Benazir
________ was forced to increase defence expenses by 14 % due to growing hostility with India over the Kashmir issue.
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