#Pakistan

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People (10)

A.Q. Khan Pakistani scientist associated with Pakistan's nuclear bomb program and its procurement network, and project director of the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute, which received BCCI grants.
Abbas Gokal Chairman of the Gulf Group shipping empire, BCCI's largest debtor, convicted at the Old Bailey in 1997 of conspiracy to defraud and sentenced to fourteen years.
Arshad Pervez Pakistani-born Toronto trader arrested in 1987 while buying maraging steel and beryllium for Pakistan's nuclear program, whose case ended in 1990 with a nolo contendere plea and release for time served.
Ayub Khan Pakistani field marshal and president whose confidant I. I. Chundrigar chaired Agha Hasan Abedi's United Bank and whose information minister later became publisher of BCCI's magazine South.
Benazir Bhutto Daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, leader of the Pakistan People's Party and twice prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated at a Rawalpindi election rally on December 27, 2007.
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Pakistani civil servant who ran the State Bank under Bhutto and the finance ministry under Zia, chaired the Pakistani BCCI Foundation, and was president of Pakistan from 1988 to 1993.
Kemal Shoaib BCCI officer whom Agha Hasan Abedi installed as chairman of the secretly acquired Independence Bank of Encino; the Federal Reserve fined him 20 million dollars in 1991.
Saigol family Punjabi textile and industrial family whose account Agha Hasan Abedi carried from Habib Bank to United Bank and BCCI, and which owed BCCI 44 million dollars by 1990.
Zia ul-Haq Pakistani army chief who seized power in 1977, hanged Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, ruled until his 1988 death in a plane crash, and was cultivated by BCCI's Agha Hasan Abedi.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Pakistani prime minister whose government nationalized Agha Hasan Abedi's United Bank in 1974, who was deposed by Zia ul-Haq in 1977 and hanged in 1979.

Organizations (4)

Attock Oil Oil company incorporated in England in 1913 and operating in Pakistan, called BCCI's oil company by the Senate, in which Kamal Adham, Faisal al-Fulaij and Ghaith Pharaon held interests as BCCI nominees.
Gulf Group Shipping and trading group of the Gokal brothers, based in Geneva and London, which became BCCI's largest borrower; its chairman, Abbas Gokal, was convicted of fraud in London in 1997.
Pakistan People's Party Pakistani political party of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto, which a 1978 government White Paper said had received two or three crores of rupees through Agha Hasan Abedi in 1977.
United Bank Limited Pakistani bank founded by Agha Hasan Abedi in 1959, nationalized under Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1974, and sold in 2002 to the Abu Dhabi Group and Bestway.

Places (2)

Karachi Southern port city of Pakistan and capital of Sindh province, where Agha Hasan Abedi lived and BCCI kept its Pakistani branch, files and protocol department.
Pakistan Pakistan is a South Asian country that served as the primary logistical base for CIA-coordinated Mujahideen supply during the Soviet-Afghan War, including Michael Riconosciuto's rocket reconfiguration program at the Pakistan Ordnance Works.