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...Pakistan-positively do not want a return to parliamentary democracy. If we can run a country without a party system, we shall be a happier people." Leaning forward intently in a wicker chair on the terrace of the President's House in East Pakistan, Pakistan Strongman Mohammed Ayub Khan was discoursing on his favorite subject: the evils of politics...
...general who was trained at Britain's Sandhurst, Ayub has a soldier's dislike for politicians. In Ayub's Pakistan, politicking is literally a crime: criticism of his government is punishable by 14 years' hard labor. But under his benign rule, few have actually been sent to the workhouse, and in the nearly three years since he peaceably ejected the squabbling, corrupt politicians in exasperation and took over the government, he has made a spirited assault on Pakistan's multitude of ills...
...Money. Ayub has pushed through a land reform program, redistributing some 23% of Pakistani farmland to onetime tenant farmers. Karachi's teeming refugee slums have been razed; some 100,000 refugees from the bloody division of Pakistan and India were relocated in plain but clean modern colonies. No longer is "tea money" necessary to get in to see a government official. Ayub has made Pakistan's government the least corrupt of any nation on the Asian continent...
...odds. Publicly, he is forced to approve Algerian peace talks. But if they succeed, Nasser might well find himself looking in from the outside on an Arab, French-oriented "Maghreb" made up of Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco. In the world of Islam, Iran has extended Israel de facto recognition. President Ayub Khan of Pakistan has no use for Nasser's neutralism...
...with Burma, impudently drawing a line that gave Burma a small slice of northeastern India as part of the deal. Except for disputed Mount Everest, the Chinese have about reached a border pact with Nepal (Red China naturally wants the world's highest peak). Now Pakistan President Mohammed Ayub Khan says he plans to get together with the Chinese and draw a northern border for the Pakistan-held sector of Kashmir...