Word: ayub
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since President Mohammed Ayub Khan is a rational man, not given to fits of pique, observers could only attribute the odd step to the arcane maneuvering of that powerful pack of officials that has risen around Ayub seeking a new direction for Pakistan. That direction is due East-toward Peking. The group, which occupies many of the most important posts in the civil service and reaches into the Cabinet itself, is determined to keep the war going in India, and sees closer ties with neighboring Red China as a solution to Pakistan's foreign policy problems...
...Ayub gave the hawks their chance in 1962 when he permitted the first genial gestures to Red China as a tactic intended to alarm Washington and halt the big U.S. military aid program for India that began during the trouble on India's Himalayan border. When U.S. diplomats protested, Ayub always maintained that his chaps were taking things a bit far and he did not really approve of their extreme policies. Since then, the chaps seem to have been able to develop a momentum for their policies -backed by an upsurge of national pride and jingoism as a result...
Earnest Apology. The well-coordinated mobs that stormed the Karachi embassy and other official U.S. installations in Lahore and Dacca in protest at the halt in American arms shipments last month clearly had government approval-though apparently not Ayub...
When he earnestly apologized to U.S. Ambassador Walter McConaughy, Gauhar saw to it that the apology was not mentioned in the Pakistani press. Shortly after, when Ayub telephoned President Johnson to smooth relations with Washington and advise the White House of the imminent ceasefire, the unhappy hawks swapped facts in the press handouts: the announcement made it sound as if L.B.J. had humbly phoned Ayub, instead of vice versa...
...shamefaced Pakistani told a former American friend. In fact, U.S.-Pakistan relations have never been so poor at any time in the nation's 18-year history. Unless by some miracle a solution is found to satisfy Pakistan on the Kashmir problem, relations are hardly likely to improve. Ayub has told the U.N. to produce a satisfactory solution within three to five months-or else. Whether the hawks around him will give him even that much time is open to question. "Things are going to get a great deal worse," says one glum Washington observer...