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...Indian enemies, Ayub decided that only Red China shared his dislike for India. Within six months, Ayub had signed a trade pact with China, a border agreement that threw Chinese support behind Pakistan's demands for disputed Kashmir, and a contract that established joint airline service between Karachi, Dacca, Canton and Shanghai. With that, the U.S. withheld a $4,300,000 loan for an airport at Dacca, arguing that it was hardly prepared to serve Communist Chinese air travelers. But overall U.S. aid to Pakistan continued at nearly $400 million a year...
...tongued attacks on Ayub's highhanded ways has surprised and shocked the government. Students throughout the nation staged angry protest marches against the regime, and at least one demonstrator was killed by police in Karachi. DOWN WITH THE AYUB DICTATORSHIP, cried posters in the East Pakistan city of Dacca, where students enthusiastically proclaimed Miss Fatima Jinnah Week. In Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, student unrest prompted the government to close all the schools indefinitely...
Bags & Tea. In an industrial complex near Dacca, East Pakistan, some 20,-000 Adamjee workers annually produce 70 million burlap bags and 90 million square yards of cloth to be used in products as diverse as automobile seats and jute suits. Nearby, Adamjee has just opened a new factory that will ensure even greater use of Pakistan's jute crop by producing particle board out of jute stems, providing a low-cost wood substitute for lumber-poor Pakistan. He is also almost single-handedly diversifying Pakistan's industry, using jute profits to build a $2.1 million cotton mill...
...science college and contributing $100,000 a year to charity. As for his workers, whom he expects to see back on the job soon, Adamjee pays them double time for overtime, also provides a pension plan, free medical care and schooling. On the company grounds at the Dacca complex, the benevolent boss has built a house of worship that his workers have respectfully nicknamed the "Adamjee Mosque...
East Pakistan last week went wild over Fatima Jinnah. Nearly 250,000 people turned out to see her in Dacca, and a million lined the 293-mile route from there to Chittagong. Her train, called the Freedom Special, was 22 hours late because men at each station pulled the emergency cord, and begged her to speak. The crowds hailed her as "Mother of the Nation," and when she asked, "Are you with me?", hands waved wildly...