Word: aly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Pakistan's creation last August, the world has heard little of its creator, Mohamed Ali Jinnah. After a month of illness in Lahore, Jinnah recently returned to Karachi, gaunter than ever. From there last week came reports of Jinnah's life as Governor General of what he proudly calls "the fifth largest nation in the world...
...Even if the two titans, the United States and Soviet Russia, come to a showdown, India must try to bring about a peaceful settlement of their differences," asserted Asaf Ali, India's first ambassador to the United States, in a speech at Littauer yesterday...
...Asaf Ali was educated in Great Britain and Delhi, was jailed a total of eight years for his political activities in India, and has held both a ministry in the interim government and a seat in the central legislative assembly. The 58-year old lawyer met with a Hindustani student group after his talk...
...Mohamed Ali Jinnah is a skillful political leader who cannot be bothered with economics. When Pakistan was still a Moslem dream, a correspondent repeated to Jinnah the Hindu argument that Pakistan would not work because the proposed state lacked coal, industry and other economic resources. Answered Jinnah: "Why should they care if I starve?" Last week, after less than four months of independence, Pakistan was an economic wreck, and serious social unrest was rising...
...Moslem Karachi, Pakistan Governor General Mohamed Ali Jinnah raged at the news. He ordered Pakistan troops, under British Lieut. General D. D. Gracey, into Kashmir. The order was not carried out, for in New Delhi British Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck threatened to withdraw British officers from Pakistan's Army...