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Since Pakistan's Mohammed Ayub Khan seized power in 1958. he has argued that Western-style constitutions are unsuited to new, underdeveloped nations...
Banning political parties, which he blamed for pushing the country to the brink of chaos, benevolent Dictator Ayub set out to establish a system of "basic democracies" that would steer a middle road between authoritarian rule and untrammeled democracy. Last week, after putting his compromise to the test in the first nationwide election held since Pakistan won its independence in 1947. Ayub Khan declared accurately enough that the country has made "a very happy beginning...
Instant Divorce. In fact, President Ayub left Pakistan little opportunity to do otherwise. Forbidden under martial law to use party labels, most candidates for the 150 seats in Pakistan's new National Assembly campaigned on the bland platform of "identification with the ideology of Pakistan." They were not elected directly by the people but by an elite electorate consisting of 80.000 members of village and town councils-less than one-thousandth of the population-whom Ayub calls "persons of status in their communities." In the average constituency, six candidates vied for only 500 votes. While the electors, or basic...
...basic voters showed their support for Ayub's system with a 95% turnout that ignored clandestine appeals to boycott the polls. They heavily endorsed three of Ayub's ministers who were running for the National Assembly - notably Kashmir Affairs Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a zealous champion of Ayub's ambitious land reforms, who was elected from a Sind constituency dominated by feudal landlords who have been hardest hit by land redistribution. Ayub's biggest triumph was the voters' overwhelming rejection of orthodox Moslem extremists, who stumped for "purification" of society and repeal of such Ayub...
...choice of gifts, Pakistan's President Ayub Khan scored a clear victory: he gave Jackie Kennedy a handsome ten" year-old bay gelding named Sardar, a trained jumper ideal for the fox hunting that she loves to pursue in the Virginia countryside. At Pakistan's ceremonious Lahore Horse and Cattle Show, she entered beside Ayub in a gold-trimmed carriage drawn by six steeds and escorted by 40 mounted horsemen in red coats. As 40,000 Pakistanis cheered, Jackie saw camels dance and salaam, prize cattle parade, horses two-step to drums. Eying a water buffalo that Ayub...