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...They call her the Mother of the Nation," sniffed Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan. "Then she should at least behave like a mother." What upset Ayub was that Fatima Jinnah looked so good in pants. The more she upbraided Ayub, the louder Pakistanis cheered the frail figure in her shalwar (baggy white silk trousers). By last week, with Pakistan's first presidential election only a fortnight away, opposition to Ayub had reached a pitch unequaled in his six years of autocratic rule...
...haired Miss Jinnah, 71, the candidate of five ragtag and usually disunited opposition parties, was picked mainly because she was the sister and confidante of the late revered Mohammed Ali Jinnah, father of his nation's independence. But Pakistan's response to her razor-tongued attacks on Ayub's highhanded ways has surprised and shocked the government. Students throughout the nation staged angry protest marches against the regime, and at least one demonstrator was killed by police in Karachi. DOWN WITH THE AYUB DICTATORSHIP, cried posters in the East Pakistan city of Dacca, where students enthusiastically proclaimed...
Most legal groups in Pakistan have come out for Miss Jinnah, and were denounced by Ayub as "mischiefmongers." In reply, the Karachi Bar Association overwhelmingly adopted a resolution urging "the party in power to get rid of the notion that wisdom, righteousness and patriotism are the monopoly of their yes men." The usually complaisant newspaper editors defied the regime's attempts to make them endorse a restrictive new press...
...REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Both Nationalist China's and Red China's positions in the world are assessed by India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, Nationalist China's President and Madame Chiang Kaishek, Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, Britain's new Prime Minister Harold Wilson and other leaders...
Food for Souls. Ayub has greatly improved Pakistan's still wretched economy. Despite protests from religious conservatives, he promotes birth control to curb overpopulation. Without control, says Ayub, "in ten years human beings will be eating human beings in Pakistan." As for his son's career, Ayub says rather lamely that he likes to see all young men get ahead...