Word: dacca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the eleven-year-old republic of Pakistan has yet to hold its first general election, its politicians stage some of the fiercest parliamentary battles of the British Commonwealth. Last week in Dacca, the evenly matched government and opposition forces of East Pakistan waged the biggest brawl in the young country's brief history...
Last week East Pakistanis no longer even had a government of their own. After two provincial governments collapsed within three days in Dacca, Pakistan's Strongman Iskander Mirza suspended the East Pakistan provincial assembly and imposed direct presidential rule on the province. That meant that 55% of the population of Pakistan were being ruled under autocratic control from the distant national capital...
Divided by Politics. Tucked into a far corner of the subcontinent next to Burma, East Pakistan has little real concern for the issues that seem important to General Mirza's central government. Politicians in the provincial capital of Dacca, where goats wander in the unpaved streets, argue that it makes little sense for Pakistan to spend 70% of its budget on arms when industry so desperately needs capital. East Pakistan inclines more to a neutralist foreign policy, and can see little profit in joining anti-Communist alliances such as the Baghdad Pact (though, if profit is the standard, Pakistan...
Pakistan's Prime Minister Hussein Suhrawardy filed vigorous protests with Britain and France. In Dacca, capital of East Pakistan, an angry mob of students set fire to the British Information Office, shouting, "Down with Britain...
...trouble started in East Pakistan, the tropical province separated from the rest of Pakistan by nearly 1,000 miles of Indian territory. Early last week thousands of angry peasants poured into the East Pakistan capital of Dacca to protest against persistent food shortages that have almost doubled the price of rice in the last two months. When the crowd swelled to 15,000, Dacca's police opened fire "in self-defense." The riots kept on for two days, and finally, after five rioters had been killed and two leading politicos smeared with filth by the mob, East Pakistan...