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...period was to facilitate the entrance of American aid into the country. This aid, part of a pact with the Pakistanis which John Foster Dulles had conceived in 1953 as an anti-Russian coalition, had the effect of strengthening the military and hastening the 1958 coup d'etat by Ayub Khan...
...Ayub regime had based its legitimacy on the promise that it would eradicate the corruption and the oligarchy of the post-colonial regime; but soon enough, Ayub showed himself to be the despot that he was, instituting a system of indirect elections which allowed the regime to manipulate friendly candidates into popular office. This system, in turn, had the effect of disenfranchising Pakistan's overpopulated and impoverished East wing, which had often been victimized by the financial and industrial centers of Pakistan's west...
Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, Pakistan's President pro tempore and army commander, is a rather reluctant strongman. Last March Yahya imposed martial law and took over the presidency in the wake of nationwide rioting prompted by the autocratic rule of Ayub Khan. At the time, Yahya promised a swift return to democracy. Two weeks ago, in a broadcast to his 130 million fellow citizens, he kept his word. Promising -indeed, practically commanding-an orderly march back to civilian rule, he said: "I am not prepared to tolerate any obstruction in the restoration of democracy." Last week Yahya explained...
Died. Iskander Mirza, 70, Pakistan's first President, whose troubled two years in office were marked by corruption, famine and near bankruptcy and ended with a military coup by General Mohammed Ayub Khan in 1958; of a heart attack; in London...
When the big riots broke out last month, Ayub may have wished that he had jailed Bhashani anyway. Operating apparently on Chinese orders to start a Maoist revolt, Bhashani's well-trained party workers led some of the worst rampaging, in which hundreds of people, including a dozen minor officials, were murdered and many houses burned down. Bhashani shrugs off the violence as "male-ganimat," or retribution, which is condoned by the Koran...