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Pipes & Pathans. Six hours out of Turkey, he landed in the brassy, brilliant sun at Karachi's airport to be greeted by Pakistan's President, blunt, Sandhurst-trained General Mohammed Ayub Khan. Together they rode into the city in an open white Cadillac, past half a million cheering people-women in veils or tentlike burgas, tens of thousands of schoolchildren waving flags, armed sailors and soldiers carefully spaced to prevent unruly exuberance. Down the freshly cleaned streets they drove, past prairies of rubble still redolent with the smell of refugees, even though special squads had worked all night...
Midst all the grandeur and panoply Pakistan's Ayub had a case to sell to the President: the Kashmir question. General Ayub tried to convince the President that India's Nehru must consent to the reopening of negotiations on the disputed land. After all, Pakistan is a U.S. ally while India is neutralist, ran the argument, so Pakistan deserves U.S. support. Ike listened carefully but was noncommittal...
...earliest he could get away from preliminary budget chores; Dec. 11, the opening of the U.S. exhibit at the World Agricultural Fair in New Delhi; Dec. 19, the Western summit in Paris. Fortnight ago he sent off letters to India's Premier Nehru and Pakistan's President Ayub accepting longstanding invitations to visit...
Last week in the growing cordiality between Pakistan's President Ayub Khan and Nehru, Indians became Indians once more, even in Pakistan. The request came straight from Ayub. Bombay's Free Press Journal responded gratefully: "This change of attitude of the Pakistani press is welcome in India that WAS Bharat...
...course, it is not democracy. Critics think Ayub is moving too slowly at reforming Pakistan's legal system and devising a constitution (answers Ayub: "I am not one of those clever chaps. I like to know exactly what I am doing before I do it"). He agrees that Pakistan needs a constitution, but it will probably be Gaullist when it comes, and Ayub would argue that it has to be. He scorns demagogues ("It is a wrong thing to do to play on the emotions of the people") and swears, "I had no desire to take on this kind...