Word: ayub
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...deepened the hate and envy felt by East Pakistan's dark, rice-eating Bengalis for the taller, fairer-and wealthier-wheat-eating Sindhis, Punjabis and Pathans of West Pakistan, the dominant half of the divided Moslem country. Anti-West Pakistan riots among the Bengalis forced ex-President Mohammad Ayub Khan into retirement last year. Successor Yahya, who has scheduled for next week the first general elections since Pakistan won independence 22 years ago, has taken some steps to correct the economic and political imbalance between East and West. But he has a long way to go. In the world...
...PRINCIPAL task which policy planners and the Harvard team faced in Pakistan during the first years of the Ayub regime was to rectify Pakistan's regional inequalities; their response to the problem, however, was to work for a solution by the circuitous route of raising the GNP and letting the free market mechanism do the job on its own. What that meant in terms of social policy was to encourage the growth of private industry and capital through tax exemptions and other incentives for the rich. Nevertheless, in spite of a slight rise in growth that benefited the wealthier class...
...works program in East Pakistan to lower the 30 per cent employment rate and improve agricultural yield. The program, which Gilbert later termed "the first significant works program outside a Communist country," was highly successful in denting the unemployment statistic and bringing improvements to farming and transportation, but the Ayub government never let it grow to full size. In fact, an extended program might ultimately have brought about a genuine redistribution of income and a radical decentralization of government authority, but these were the very predicaments that Ayub and his Western financiers were seeking to avoid...
...with India precipitated a vast economic setback in Pakistan, wrecking much of the growth that had occurred in the years before. More than that, it precipitated a political crisis that led ultimately to the bloody rioting and the fall of Ayub in 1968. But the new government was merely a political, not an economic, substitute for Ayub, the only real difference in its economic outlook being that it chose to reduce the DAS' influence in planning policy. It was for this reason that the DAS left Pakistan last June...
...analogy with Ayub is staggering. In the words of Richard Gilbert, who also served as field director in Indonesia, "an army which was originally a guerilla army, an army of independence, has been converted and now behaves like an army of occupation." The hope of the Indonesian people for a better life after the overthrow of Sukaron's abusive political and economic policies has met with mass murders, political concentration camps, and massive American "aid" and investment. And where does the DAS stand among all this...