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...come apart at the seams." Warns a high-ranking Iranian: "If the Pakistanis start to have really serious trouble with Baluchistan [a province in the west of the country whose tribal population is demanding autonomy], you mark my words, we're going to have trouble with our own Baluch minority on our side of the border...
Tehran authorities are further convinced that the Soviet KGB has for years been patiently pursuing a plot to use Afghanistan as a base for stirring up trouble in the Baluch areas of Iran and Pakistan. These observers claim that they have seen a map, drawn in Moscow and secured by the Iranian intelligence service, showing a Greater Baluchistan that would connect the U.S.S.R. with the Arabian Sea. Similarly, an Islamabad diplomat refers darkly to the "Moscow-Kabul-Delhi axis." The Russians, he insists, "are now at the Khyber Pass." Certainly this is an exaggeration if not a delusion...
...further breakup of Pakistan is a nightmare that has become a possibility-though no more than that as yet-in the aftermath of last December's war with India. Since then, continued martial law has provided a focus for the historic nationalism of the warlike Pathan and Baluch tribesmen. Russian-supplied automatic rifles are being smuggled across the frontier from Afghanistan, evidently destined for the 6,000-strong Zalme Pakhtoon (Pathan Youth). A bloody riot erupted in Quetta, a city in Baluchistan, after Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto appointed governors for the two provinces from his own party, despite...
...growing district near the broad Ganges, fell into a restless sleep on the night of March 25. Without warning, 13 Jeeps and trucks came to a halt outside Kushtia's police station. It was 10:30 on the night the war broke out. Delta Company of the 27th Baluch Regiment had arrived from its base at Jessore cantonment 60 miles to the south. The 147 men of the company quickly disarmed some 500 Bengali policemen without meeting any resistance and then occupied four additional key points: the district police headquarters, the government office building, the VHP radio transmitter...
...anyone can understand-was provided by Viceroy & Lady Willingdon. Having pitched their golden thrones and held a durbar near the frontier of Afghanistan (TIME, May 2), they pitched thrones again last week and held another durbar in British Baluchistan, adjoining Persia. To do homage to Their Excellencies hundreds of Baluch nomads rushed out of mud-walled huts, sprang to horse and to camel and greeted the Vice-regal procession as Benito Mussolini or oldtime Amerindians would have done- with right arm outstretched. On the high-road to Kalat, capital of the native states of Baluchistan, Lord Willingdon noted with approval...