Word: bokhari
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...high time for the U.S. to be consistent and treat the Kashmiris the same way as the Kosovars in the wake of Serbian aggression [WORLD, July 12]. The U.S. needs to spearhead an international effort to deliver the Kashmiri people their rights. WASIQ M. BOKHARI Philadelphia...
...talked for 13 hours and 35 minutes across a table in Peking's Hall of the Western Flowers. A Chinese Harvard man interpreted, a few advisers listened silently. Thrice daily, blue-uniformed Chinese servants noiselessly served tea and cookies while the discussion continued. Only once, said Professor Ahmed Bokhari, who accompanied Hammarskjold, was there "a slight relaxation for about five minutes. Otherwise, the conversations were intense, earnest and continuous...
...case had been argued for two weeks in the new, expensively ugly chamber of the U.N. Security Council overlooking Manhattan's East River. Pakistan's Ahmed S. Bokhari spoke for eleven countries of the Middle and Far East. "The whole of Asia practically knocks at the door of the U.N.," he cried. ". . . It merely says one thing: 'Please, in heaven's name discuss this question . . .' If [you turn us away] it will amount to [saying], 'You can go to hell...
...question" was the simmering trouble in Tunisia, where 3,000,000 Arabs are trying to break French colonial rule and get a greater measure of self-government (TIME, April 7). The answer to Bokhari's plea lay with the U.S., long the champion of the principle that any complaint, even if absurd, should at least get a preliminary hearing in U.N. With U.S. approval, the Tunisian complaint would go on the agenda. If the U.S. voted no or abstained, the door would be closed...
...this piece of Holmesian expediency look to millions in Africa, the Middle East and Asia who have never heard of Mr. Justice Holmes, but who expect moral leadership from the U.S.? Said Pakistan's Bokhari: "With regard to free discussion, I do not believe that any country in the world has a more honorable record than the U.S. [But its] reversal today will be very hard to explain ... It would almost look as though the U.S. had made up its mind to do a quick U-turn in a one-way street. What the consequences will be I cannot...