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...estimated 3,000 "infiltrators." Deciding that this was not enough, India then moved to strike at the "infiltration routes" themselves. Indian troops crossed the U.N. cease-fire line and occupied half a dozen abandoned Pakistani outposts. Seemingly encouraged by the silence of Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan, India stepped up the tempo. In the Punch-Uri area, the Indians advanced fully 25 miles. Toward the end of August, four battalions of crack Indian troops drove the Pakistanis from two vital passes and claimed to have killed 62 and captured 14 of the enemy...
Question of Objectives. The open seizure of Pakistan-controlled territory left Ayub Khan almost no choice. Either Pakistan would hit back or be exposed to the world as a paper tiger. Last week Pakistan made its military answer and also chose the ground on which it would fight. Its 70 tanks were deployed on the favorable flatlands of Chhamb rather than in the rugged mountain country near Srinagar...
Nevertheless, further U.S. assistance to Pakistan hung in the balance last week. The reason dates back to 1962, when the U.S. first began pumping military assistance to Pakistan's old enemy India, which faced invasion across the Himalayas by Red China. Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan, already interested in the nonalignment game, found U.S. aid to India reason to move more swiftly onto a path of warmer relations with Peking, and more recently, Moscow. Ayub's government-controlled press has also been a consistent critic of U.S. policy in Viet Nam, which no doubt influenced President...
Early this month Washington increased the pressure with a diplomatic note advising Ayub that the next meeting of the aid consortium of the U.S. and eight other nations that had promised Pakistan a fresh $500 million had been postponed from July 27 until Sept. 27. The message suggested that the interval thus created might be useful for ironing out U.S.-Pakistani differences...
...Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto read the U.S. note to the National Assembly. The result, predictably, was outrage and indignation. "If we are not going to be ruled from No. 10 Downing Street," said another, "then, by God, we are not going to be ruled by Wall Street." Next day Ayub himself took up the cry: "If friendship impinges on the sovereignty and independence of our country and is against our interests, we no longer desire such friendship...