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Through the festive streets of Rawalpindi clanked five Chinese-built T-59 tanks, dipping their long, angular gun barrels as they passed President Mohammed Ayub Khan's reviewing stand. Then the walls of the capital reverberated to the roar of a Pakistani Air Force flyby, led by four silvery MIG-19s. A flock of American-supplied aircraft trailed cautiously at the rear, mostly B57 bombers, F-86 Sabres and F-104 Starfighters. Ayub's armory had a new look, and he was flaunting it before his SEATO and CENTO allies...
During last summer's Indo-Pakistani border war, Ayub lost some 500 armored vehicles and nearly one-third of his air force. Since the U.S. and Britain -his principal suppliers of weaponry -had refused to replenish Ayub's stores, he turned to Red China, whose leaders were happy to turn a political profit. No sooner had the tank-and-jet performance completed last week's "Pakistan Day" celebrations than the Chinese collected the first installment of Ayub's debt. Into Rawalpindi flew Red Chinese President Liu Shao-chi and Foreign Minister Chen Yi for five days...
Spurring his warlike Moslems to battle against the hated Hindus in Kashmir last fall was a relatively simple task for Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan. Calming them down has turned out to be a good deal harder. After all, Ayub's controlled press had claimed one magnificent victory after another in Kashmir. When Ayub and India's late Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri agreed in Tashkent last month to observe the original border and withdraw their troops from it, Pakistan's vitriolic Foreign Minister Zulfikar AH Bhutto nearly resigned in disgust, and students demonstrated...
Resentment reached a bitter peak in Lahore, which was actually attacked by Indian troops last fall and has since borne the brunt of Ayub's propaganda offensive. The Lahore demonstrations lasted for a week, killed five persons. Pakistan's squabbling politicians, who have been looking for an issue to mobilize public opinion behind them ever since Ayub turned them out of office in 1958, held a conference in Lahore two weeks ago, at which they loudly condemned the Tashkent agreement...
...Ayub decided that things had gone far enough. He had already barnstormed the country, pleading for his countrymen to "show the same sense of purpose in achieving peace that you did in achieving victory." Last week, in a predawn swoop in Lahore, his police arrested five of the leading opposition leaders on grounds that "they have been indulging in activities highly prejudicial to the maintenance of public order and peaceful conditions." Just in case other politicians did not get the message that Pakistan is now officially at peace, Ayub seemed prepared to arrest them...