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Like Pakistan's Ayub Khan, one of his heroes, Park has a soldier's contempt for politicians, would not dream of letting them ruin his work with their "parliamentary impotency." In addition to a popularly elected President, who will be chosen in March to a four-year term, the new constitution provides for a Premier whose role is limited to liaison man be tween the President and a unicameral legislature of 150 to 200 members who will have no veto powers over the executive. The President, on the other hand, is given enough power to make Charles...
Other Commonwealth leaders declared that Britain's realignment with Europe and away from her Afro-Asian partners will only deepen the chasm that divides the underdeveloped southern nations and the affluent Northern Hemisphere. Said Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan: "You cannot expect friendly coexistence between those countries that are deliberately kept backward and the ones that are bulging with wealth." Black Africa's "uncommitted" Commonwealth members, notably Tanganyika and Nigeria, stoutly rejected Europe's offer of "associate membership" in the Common Market on the theory that this would tie their policies to Western Europe, NATO...
Married. Jamila, 18, second daughter of Pakistan's ramrod President Mohammed Ayub Khan; and Prince Amir Zaib, 24, second son of the Wali of Swat; in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Ayub's eldest daughter, Naseem, is married to the Wali's first son, the Waliad Aurangzeb, heir apparent to Pakistan's princely state of Swat...
Brotherly Criticism. Despite such Ayub successes, the election returns showed that Pakistanis want a system that is more genuinely democratic than any thing envisaged by Ayub. The great majority of all elected candidates are former members of banned parties. At least 100 belonged to the old Moslem League, whose leader in West Pakistan is none other than Ayub's elder brother. Sardar Bahadur Khan. Moslem Leaguer Bahadur is outspokenly critical of his brother's contention that political parties, when restored, should be confined to "like-minded people" within the National Assembly, where his Moslem Leaguers will probably have...
...defense of his limited democracy, President Ayub protests that it is Pakistan's best protection against the demagogic misrule that plagued the nation for eleven years under a parliamentary system inherited from the British. Says he: "The curse of Pakistan is an intelligentsia which doesn't understand its own country and its own conditions. We are called heretics if we don't rigidly follow the Western system." Heresy or not, if this week's elections for the provincial assemblies follow the pattern of voting for the National Assembly. Ayub Khan will be under strong pressure from...