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...public speech and private chat, Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan had proved himself the most outspoken visiting statesman Washington had heard in years. Some found the frankness refreshing, but most diplomats were appalled at his bald attempts to downgrade India and India's Nehru in U.S. esteem...
...asked President Kennedy to help push Nehru toward a settlement of the Indo-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir, which is ruled by India but is heavily Moslem in population. "Work on Mr. Nehru's nerves." Ayub urged Kennedy. He argued that the Kennedy Administration had highly overrated the importance of neutral India in its allocation of aid, and that more U.S. money ought to be channeled to SEATO ally Pakistan. Nehru was overrated, too, suggested Ayub: "People think he's thinking all the time-actually, he's just in a trance...
...Ayub flew back to Karachi last week,Nehru exploded. "I have never seen such political behavior during my 40 or 50 years of public life," shouted Nehru to a crowd of 200,000 in the Kashmiri capital of Srinagar. Ayub, he said heatedly, "is basically a war-minded soldier. While the United States thought it was providing arms to Pakistan to combat Communism, it is very well known all over the world that Pakistan has military aims against peaceful countries...
Plainly miffed that the U.S. is providing the Pakistani Air Force with modern F-104 jets armed with air-to-air missiles, Nehru sniffed that Ayub had better think twice before attacking India. "A country which is economically strong can always defend itself against any military might." explained Nehru with more vehemence than logic, "and a few fighter aircraft received from the U.S. after adopting blackmailing tactics will not help Pakistan, which has made very little economic progress since...
From Karachi, Ayub commented that Nehru's outburst just proved his point: the chief issue causing friction between India and Pakistan is Kashmir. "And it all depends on Mr. Nehru. If he were to see reason, the whole Kashmir problem could be settled easily." At week's end the White House hastily announced that Nehru had been invited to visit Kennedy in November...