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...sooner had the Chinese attacked India last year than the usually aloof Red Chinese diplomats scurried from their rambling Karachi embassy compound to court the Pakistanis. In December Ayub readily accepted China's offer to redraw the border between China's Sinkiang region and the Pakistan-controlled portion of Kashmir in a way favorable to Pakistan. A trade agreement followed in January, and recently Pakistan's Foreign Minister hinted broadly that China had agreed to aid Pakistan against possible Indian attack. Last week Pakistan and Communist China signed an airline agreement that could make Pakistan...
...allied with the U.S. as a member of SEATO and CENTO, Pakistan is getting ever cozier with Red China. Reason: anger over Western military aid to India, which the Pakistanis fear will not be used by New Delhi against China but to gain control of long-disputed Kashmir. President Ayub Khan argues forcefully that the U.S. is treating nonaligned India better than allied Pakistan, and that the U.S. at least should have extracted concessions on the Kashmir issue from India before offering...
...plum: for years Western airlines, including BOAC, have tried but failed to obtain landing rights in China. In Washington, the State Department termed the air agreement "an unfortunate breach of free world solidarity." And when Under Secretary of State George Ball flies to Pakistan this week for talks with Ayub, he will make clear U.S. concern over Pakistan's dalliance with Red China. Among other things, Ball will object to American-made jets' flying into Communist China and the possibility of the Pakistan Airlines' stocking U.S.-made spare parts and maintenance gear in Shanghai and Canton. Until...
...Ayub himself seemed undismayed by the tactics; he is certain that the two countries eventually must resolve their differences in order to present a united front against Red China. Not all the Pakistanis were so stoic-or so confident. Angry voices rose in the National Assembly at Rawalpindi, Pakistan's capital, where the old antipathy to India is always hard to put down...
...Ayub not to trust any agreement signed by Nehru, because he "knows how to get out of commitments far more binding and rigid." Who was the opposition chieftain? None other than Ayub's own younger brother, Sardar Bahadur Khan...