Word: bahawalpur
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...BAHAWALPUR, Pakistan--Air, force teams yesterday recovered the bodies of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel from the charred wreckage of Zia's military plane...
...stricter Moslem lands, the few public backsliders were punished by official decree, and in others they were denounced by public opinion. The state of Bahawalpur in Pakistan ordered three days' imprisonment for anyone found eating, drinking or smoking in public. When a rickety Cairo drinking place collapsed last week on its 15 patrons, pious onlookers called it the judgment...
...current Amir of Bahawalpur is 45-year-old Sir Sadiq Mohamed Kahn Abbasi Bahadur. He was polished by English tutors, became adept at tennis and polo. One of his four royal wives is British-born. The Amir, however, has never been strongly attracted by British ideas on democracy. He was one of India's most despotic rulers. When India was partitioned and Bahawalpur became Pakistan's second largest state, the Amir became one of the Moslem League's sharpest thorns...
This month, the Amir of Bahawalpur rounded out 25 years of rule with a lavish silver jubilee celebration in New Bagdad (pop. about 50,000). At dawn a 19-gun salute (since independence he has added two more to the 17 guns allotted by the British) thundered over the city, and the show was on. Through the streets of New Bagdad snaked a morning-long parade of elephants, camels, jeeps and ambulances. The Amir rode in a Rolls-Royce...
Last week, as Bahawalpur prepared for elections, Moslem Leaguers were skeptical. They complained that the Amir's police had ripped down the Pakistan national flag in one village, and in others were persecuting wearers of the Jinnah cap (a Persian lamb fez which serves as party badge). In Lahore, the Daily Pakistan Times sneered that the Amir's political reform was "meaningless," his jubilee show "grossly out of keeping with the needs of our people...