Magnificent Delusions (74 page)

Vietnam/War

       
Pakistan and,
109–110
,
113
,
123
,
222

       
US officials and,
3
,
102
,
107
,
123
,
130

Wall Street Journal
,
289
,
304
,
326

Walters, Vernon,
225
,
226–228
,
264

Warren, Avra,
52
,
57

“Warriors” racialist concept,
71
,
128

Washington Post
,
70
,
193
,
203
,
222
,
231–232
,
238–239
,
241
,
248
,
252
,
253
,
254
,
258
,
260
,
281
,
284
,
338

Washington Times-Herald
,
47

Wassom, Herbert,
269

Watergate scandal,
135
,
201
,
206
,
211

Watson, Paul,
312

Wavell, Archibald,
18

Weil, Thomas,
10

Weinberger, Caspar,
266

Weisman, Steven,
304

Wheat Aid Act (US/1953),
56–57
,
61

Wheat shortages, Pakistan,
56–57
,
61
,
217

Wilson, Charlie,
263

Winant, John G.,
33

Wise, David,
117

Wolpert, Stanley,
14

Woodward, Bob,
340

World Bank,
101
,
110–111
,
140
,
161
,
273

Yahya Khan

       
background,
40
,
71

       
Bhutto on,
186

       
civil war and,
150–151
,
158
,
159
,
160
,
161–162
,
165
,
168
,
169–170
,
175

       
constitution and,
128
,
144
,
145
,
146
,
147
,
150

       
first Pakistan elections,
122
,
141
–
142
,
143

       
Kissinger on,
139–140

       
military power and,
127

       
Nixon support,
130–131
,
132
,
142
–
143
,
144
,
151
,
158
,
161
,
162–163
,
165–166
,
168
,
169
,
181

       
Nixon's visit,
130–131

       
removal from power,
170
,
176–177

       
Soviet Union and,
156

       
trial after civil war and,
181

       
US aid and,
71–72
,
128–131

       
US intermediary with China,
132–133
,
135
,
141
,
157
,
159–160
,
166

Yaqub Khan, Sahibzada. S
ee
Khan, Sahibzada Yaqub

Yousaf, Mohammad,
263–264

Yusuf, Ramzi Ahmed,
287

Zaheer, Hassan,
160

Zaidi, Ijlal,
288

Zardari, Asif

       
Bhutto, Benazir and,
286
,
316

       
as first spouse,
286

       
Haqqani's vision and,
325

       
Holbrooke and,
334
,
344

       
imprisonment,
286
,
290
,
315
,
323

       
medical treatment in US (2005),
323

       
Obama and,
332–333
,
337
,
338
–
339
,
344–345

       
Pakistan's economy,
326

       
US relationship,
325

       
winning elections (2008),
316

Zemin, Jiang,
324

Zhou Enlai,
132
,
135
,
159–160

Zia-ul-Haq, Muhammad

       
background/description,
219–220
,
224

       
burning of US embassy, Islamabad and,
243–244

       
death,
269

       
Islamization,
224
,
229

       
martial law (1977),
223

       
nuclear weapons and,
225
,
226
–
228
,
237
,
240

       
public lashings,
229

       
on Sikh uprising,
265

       
supporting Afghan opposition,
232
,
233

       
US bases in Pakistan and,
259

       
See also
Afghanistan-Soviet conflict

Zinni, Anthony,
294
,
295

Zubaida, Abu,
305

About the Author

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Husain Haqqani
was Pakistan's ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2011. A trusted adviser to the late Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, Ambassador Haqqani is a professor at Boston University and director for South and Central Asia at the Hudson Institute as well as coeditor of the journal
Current Trends in Islamist Ideology
. He has written for the
Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Boston Globe, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune
, and more. Follow him on Twitter:
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