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Closed Routes. The instrument used was the mujahid, or local warrior. Subsequent Indian interrogations of captured mujahids indicate that they are mostly inhabitants of Azad (Free) Kashmir, the Pakistan-occupied one-third of the state. As army veterans, they were given a brisk course of retraining, taught methods of sabotage. Last month they began crossing the porous cease-fire line with instructions to start an insurrection...
Died. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, 69, Indian Minister of Education, Natural Resources and Scientific Research, Jeader in his country's independence movement, intimate of Gandhi and Nehru, scholar; of a stroke; in New Delhi. At the Moslem service for the Mecca-born philosopherstatesman (with about 100,000 mourners, the largest Indian funeral gathering since the cremation of Gandhi), Prime Minister Nehru wept, said: "The whole nation has been orphaned...
...than three weeks before the Andhra election, the 25 top leaders of Nehru's Congress Party gathered in nearby Madras, prop ping themselves up against cushions on a great white mattress. The Congressmen's names were big names of the Gandhi days: Govind Ballabh Pant, Abul Kalam Azad, Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar; the setting was Gandhian, in a tenement, and many of the leaders traveled to Madras Gandhi-style, in jampacked third-class carriages. But they were painfully aware that India's Congress officials had since drifted away from the people; the old men on the mattress could detect...
Akbar's conspiracy was no joking matter. Although Premier Liaquat refused further comment, Defense Ministry officials hinted at an explanation: Faiz, who is also a leader of the pro-Communist Azad Pakistan Party, and the two officers had planned to stage a military revolt, aiming at a pro-Communist dictatorship...
...Azad Kashmir. In mountain passes of the north and east the Indian army engaged fierce Waziris, Afridis and Kashmiri tribesmen from areas where Kashmir blends with the North West Frontier Province in rugged mountain wasteland. There, in remote Gilgit, where the Indian subcontinent touches Soviet Russia, is quartered a government called Azad Kashmir (Free Kashmir) headed by an ambitious onetime petty civil servant named Sirdar Ibrahim...